"Therefore,to be able to shift the behavior of these people, to look at the turtle the other way around, then you have to involve them in the conservation of the same."

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

"I don't think it is surprising that al-Qaida would want to shift attention away from the president's historic efforts, and continued efforts, to reach out and have an open dialogue with the Muslim world,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

His comments reflected what other officials have said that ending the F-22 program is just one part of the effort to shift the focus of U.S.defenses away from what they see as the relatively remote possibility of a war with a major power and toward the types of smaller-scale conflicts of recent years.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

U.S.Defense Secretary Robert Gates. "There is a general feeling I could say that with all these additional troops and all these additional efforts that everybody is making to get to the elections in Afghanistan, to have a free and fair election and then see over the next months whether we can begin to shift the momentum,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

Historian Jeff Sklansky says a slow shift to personhood for American companies began with a Supreme Court ruling in eighteen nineteen.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

"I have spoken already to customers here; they are planning shift to iPhones if BBM is closed."

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

Soros says his plan to finance the shift with IMF funds has been well received by international governments.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

Geithner says the United States is seeing signs of a shift to saving more and borrowing less.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

But a shift in emphasis to security issues offers a new set of challenges for the president.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

As an educator,however, Johnson says that there is no other widespread cultural innovation to explain the radical shift in language usage she's seen over the past few years.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

Europeans applaud Washington's shift on climate change and new overtures to Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

Paul Pillar,a former senior CIA intelligence officer now with Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, favors a shift away from direct combat operations to a concentration on training Afghanistan's army and police, and economic development.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

The policy shift is sure to be on the agenda next week when Mr.Obama is likely to meet, at either the United Nations or the Group of 20 economic summit, with Russian President Dmitiri Medvedev.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

"But I do think that in general we have seen a shift from, for lack of a better term, professionalized terrorist operations to those that are conducted by not exactly amateurs, but folks with less training and less capability generally, technical capability."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05