Sentence examples for valuable shift from inspiring English sources

I drove a taxi under a commission system in Michigan for two years and saw this firsthand: when the owner's income is tied to the ability of his drivers, you can bet that a cab owner will interview a prospective hire until he's sure he's dealing with a stable, hard-working person who knows the streets and won't waste valuable shift time driving around lost.

As John Hagel, the renowned business and technology strategist, points out: In times of rapid change the type of knowledge that is valuable shifts from explicit (what can be contained in a document) to tacit (what is contained in a person).

But for all that one gets the sense that Hall, who after all knew a little about exclusion, was also capable of appreciating a bracingly valuable power shift.

The overweight, balding 40-year-old was her temporary manager; if she started filing complaints, she was unlikely to be given a valuable 12-hour shift again.

Mr. Buffett said the Burger King deal is different from transactions in which companies shift valuable intellectual property to other nations.

It is a practical and valuable tool to shift perception, including your perception of yourself or others' perceptions of themselves.

However, we caution the reader to be aware that highly valuable efforts to shift social vulnerabilities outside the health sector are potentially excluded here.

It's heavy, hardbacked (Hack describes it as "a valuable document of shifts, as well as our greatest hits"), and he does a little groan as he picks it up.

Disclosure of Project Goldcrest comes amid heightened political sensitivity in Europe over the way technology giants minimise their tax bills by shifting valuable –but difficult to value – intellectual property into offshore havens such as Luxembourg and charge subsidiaries large fees for using it.

A report from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) published on Thursday found e-cigarettes could play a valuable role in shifting smokers away from their "addictive and lethal" habit, a similar position to that taken last year by the English government's Public Health England, which said e-cigarettes were about 95% less harmful than tobacco cigarettes.

The reports focus on virtually the entire list of abuses identified in the Guardian's recent Tax Gap investigation which revealed how companies are now alleged to be shifting valuable intellectual property such as patents and consumer brands into tax havens.