The plan focuses on corporations only and would, if adopted widely, shift some of the global tax burden toward large companies — the ones big and rich enough to devise complex tax-reduction strategies — and away from small businesses and individuals, which tend to spend a much bigger share of their incomes on taxes.
It is a continuing contradiction: Facebook is widely criticized for shifting its terms of service and for disclosing private information — and yet millions of people start accounts each month.
Different types of cranes are widely used for shifting cargoes in building sites, shipping yards, container terminals and many manufacturing segments where the problem of fast and precise transferring a payload suspended on the ropes with oscillations reduction is frequently important to enhance the productivity, efficiency and safety.
In such cases the widely accepted approach of shifting the null zone to the primary position, usually obtained by changing the position of both eyes in the orbit, has to be modified.
The pendulum in approaches to AIDS therapy has shifted widely.
The works on view range across decades and mediums, and shift widely in tone.
Mr. Merrill's songs, accordingly, shift widely in tone in music flavored with the tinkling, hypnotic call of the calliope.
The focus of the committee is widely expected to shift away from deregulation to issues like curbing predatory lending, increasing the privacy protections of consumers, and beefing up the law that encourages banks to make loans to underserved communities.
In Westchester County, where real estate prices have shifted widely as the suburban population has boomed in recent decades, many towns have not revalued property in more than 40 years.
Control of both houses of the State Legislature hangs in the balance, and the 80-seat General Assembly is widely expected to shift to a Democratic majority, while the 40-member Senate is too close to call.
