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From its churning, sometimes stormy atmosphere to its shifting tectonic plates, Earth can be a dangerous place.

By tracking sea-level change over the entire period, the geologists were able to rule out shifting land levels as the cause of this finding.

The shifting sands of recent global events herald the many changes that are ready to appear on your horizon.

In the mobile world, the biggest constant is change, so this promises to be a bit of a shifting landscape.

Investors are waiting to see if the company's loyalty remains with its shareholders or is shifting to the state.

The purpose of a library's physical location is perceived to be shifting from one of providing tools for research, to that of entertainment.

As travelers, we also seem to be on a pendulum, shifting back and forth through space, and often end up at hubs of transit.

The rise of the international box office has as much to do with a shifting global economy as with the evolution of the movie business.

Oddly enough, however, shifting out of surplus did not affect growth appreciably in either direction (see chart).

In one sense, the brain could be trying to economise during a repetitive task by shifting resources to the default mode.

With towns shifting around everywhere you do sort of lose a sense of cohesion, and an attachment to the places you're visiting.

It boils down to the shifting sands of the self and trying to look good both to ourselves and others, experts say.

With his friend Tubby Miller, Don goes up into the wild, unexplored valley of the Shifting River to set out his trap line.

She stared directly at him, now, no longer afraid, but aware of a terrible burden shifting deep within her soul.

What happened, instead, was the shifting of the risk on to the shoulders of those least able to understand it.

The fact that the reported wedding took place in India tells us how much the world of wealth is shifting East.

The green man began shifting to the other side listing as if on the curl of a wave half of him letting go into space.

Note that this shifting occurs during the insertion of each individual character.

How little he knows, like so many fathers of adventurous girls, about how much the ground is shifting beneath her.

Advertisers did not suddenly wake up to the Internet; they have been shifting growing portions of their budgets online for years.

Abruptly, he pulled himself up into a more formal posture, shifting me to the side so that we were no longer touching.

In trade disputes, at least, the Bush team seems to be shifting gears.

Even around the delicate question of working mothers, the terms of the conversation are shifting.

Once one of Col Gaddafi's closest supporters, China is now shifting its stance as the war moves into its sixth month.

So far the government has resisted those efforts, a move that seems to be in keeping with shifting public sentiment.

It had players shifting their weight on the pad to control a skier trying to go through slalom gates.

The shape of the architecture mimics mountain range, shifting in a dynamic and yet holistic rhythm, and becomes a continuation of nature.

Snow's central thesis was that shifting attitudes had caused a polarization between intellectuals of these two great culture streams.

The economic evidence might be shifting against them, but the yuan's main critics in Washington aren't ready to concede defeat.

But she says public opinion is now shifting to question whether the U. S. justice system adequately protects innocent people from execution.

If you keep a sharp eye out for indicators and respond nimbly to shifting forces, the future will never arrive before you know it.

Ask him a question, and he will respond with a few halting phrases and an apologetic smile before shifting back to the comfort of Spanish.

But Europe is no longer the front line and America's focus is shifting to the Pacific.

The outcome will not be known for months, but the political wind seems to be shifting in favour of firmer action to counter climate change.

And you'll see that it leads with a shifting star field, and there's an Aurora Borealis in the background, kind of morphing with color.

Heavy industry seems to be shifting into a lower gear, with China's crude steel output growing at its slowest pace in a year in June.

Overall, he said the changes reflect shifting attitudes about sex in Western societies over the past half century.

But now they seem to be shifting to a more aggressive stance . . . by employing the shame strategy.

Mr Carbone said the issue is not so much about shifting jobs to Asia but helping companies grow in the US.

Out of the shifting, insubstantial mists that had so long baffled his eye, there leaped up the sudden, definite presentment of a fiend.

She was not, like so many, endeavouring to put the ocean into a tea-cup, or to tie up the shifting universe in a mess of strings called law.

It may be possible to cut personnel costs by shifting some active-duty troops to the reserves temporarily, she said.

If your opponent is shifting in an attempt to set up a charge or a ranged or area attack, either of these allies might foil those plans.

First, such a trade imbalance is to a great extent structural and a result of shifting commercial relations. I will give you one example.

We're still trying to sort out fact from fiction when it comes to Dracula. Turning into mist? Kinda doubt it. General shape-shifting? Maybe.

Greetings wayfarers of the heart, The seasons are shifting once more.

Carrie looked at him with the hue of shifting thought in her large eyes.

Beijing is trying to tame housing prices , rein in overly aggressive lending and stop banks from shifting loans off their books .

Indeed, the idea of shifting away from China seems to be gaining adherents .

It could be a long while before we see a shape-shifting robot squeeze through a crack in the door.

The picture above is Kazunori making a disc-stamping motion with his hands as he answered our query on the ever-shifting release date.

In late 2009, he made a bid to become the city's mayor on a platform of shifting more spending toward young families and education.

He's almost certainly right, which might explain much of the run-up in R& D work multinationals are shifting to China.

He said shifting security responsibility from ISAF to Afghan forces "will be conducted at a pace determined by conditions on the ground. "

They believe the data support an idea current among marine biologists , that of the " shifting baseline " .

perhaps, in the vaguest region of his mind, be did make comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence.

Since the angle depends on the density of the medium, it is always shifting, and the task is never easy.

In the next stage of your physical body's shifting reality a realm of many vibrant prismatic colors and dancing energy patterns.

Tired of the blazing heat, a tree groaned as if shifting in its rooted position.

This design integrated a differentiated street condition by shifting the front and back facades from two unconstructed rows of buildings.

Tracking hedge fund managers and shifting funds between them offers an alternative to tracking the markets for wealthy investors.

Although a decision has yet to be made, shifting Prius production to the NUMMI plant could be one of the plant's top prospects.

Another source of labor weakness was the shifting nature of the work force.

Some said it was a clear repudiation of his confrontational policy of shifting Taiwan toward independence from China.

It's about shifting from you trying to find the right information to the right information finding you.

Their ability to enjoy the upside on the risks they run, while shifting parts of the downside on to society at large, must be restricted.

Shifting metaphors, he said it was time "to take the bull by the horns and reopen the constitution" .

Shifting, starting from that of grammar, is plotted against two dimensions: meaning and linguistic form.

This shifting of risk from bondholders was a bad idea in Ireland and generalizing it across the euro zone will not improve it.

With Mr Sarkozy's popularity low, public opinion seems to be shifting.

Phased array radar, is to use phase-shifting electronically controlled antenna array as the main components of a radar.

It was the local people's unflinching stand against the plant that ultimately resulted in its shifting from the site.

Shifting dunes of gypsum, sculpted by the wind, cover White Sands National Monument, New Mexico.

Mr Obama himself implied as much by shifting subjects halfway through his address from the two wars to the state of the economy.

There was a shifting under me, followed by the leathery smell of my dad's sheriff jacket. Charlie staggered under my weight.

The direction of the pitch shifting sequence is determined by the relative delay between the two digital inputs.

Power shifting is possible, since friction-type shifting devices (clutches and brake bands ) can be used.

You witness the shifting focus of all to the current state of the global economy caused by the debt crisis rocking Europe at the moment.

Shifting business environments are causing a growing number of IT managers to rethink how they handle distribution management.

First, it means shifting back demand from the public to the private sector, when the private sector is strong enough to carry the load.

Just as the balance of power is shifting in economics, one can't help feeling that it is in soccer, too.

The defense-infrastructure problems are coming to a head as the global military balance is shifting. Although the U.

The mathematic describe of any stage of the shifting progress is done, and the dynamic models of synchronizer and actuator are built.

The economy is meant to be shifting towards consumption after years of export-addiction.

The tectonic plates that form the foundation for your life at home and out in the world are once again shifting.

The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion.

For decades, compact cars was the buzzword for foreign and domestic automakers in India, but that trend appears to be shifting.

A small jetty extending from a shore to protect a beach against erosion or to trap shifting sands.

We have had enough clever schemes to protect bankers by shifting the cost of profligacy to the prudent citizenry.

Scaled and mass produced, something like the Nocera Lab's leaf could be the key component to shifting toward a hydrogen-based economy.

If you live up in the mountains, understanding the continually shifting landscape can mean survival.

To be fair, Toyota may be shifting production domestically to avoid outright layoffs, something unpalatable to the Japanese public.

Shifting his focus to the United States' current president, Prodigy spoke about President Obama as well.

Ericsson's extended family is as good an illustration of the rapidly shifting landscape as any other.

Many surgeons will recommend shifting the nerve to the front of the elbow, which relieves pressure and tension on the nerve.

However, government officials say their focus is now shifting to figuring out how fast and to what extent the spill is degrading by itself.

But the proportions seem to be shifting sharply in favour of the older cohorts, especially those aged 55 to 65.

Mr. Erdogan said nothing, but has in the past expressed his outrage over what he calls "shifting the goalposts" .

China has tied itself in knots trying to regulate a shape-shifting industry.

It also makes editing, shifting, re-writing and transposing songs extremely easy with a few clicks of the mouse.

But the trend seems to be driven more by shifting sentiment in the west.

The housing project, reported to be valued at $6bn, is one of the most valuable emblems of the shifting relationship.

Yet Jackson has been able to mold the shifting array of personnel into teams that never had a losing record and never missed the playoffs.

This natural shape shifting can be used in ways that scientists are just starting to understand.

Shifting the focus of foreign-language study from written to oral instruction is only one way of making classes more practical.

Scientific judgments put the "safe" level between 400 and 550 ppm with the consensus shifting towards the lower end of that range.

This year, individuals have been shifting money out of US stocks and into emerging market equities on a scale not seen before.

The shadow moves when you resize the page, as if the light were shifting.

Company founder Blake Krikorian acknowledges most folks may be confused by the concept of shifting the time and place of media consumption.

If any other price ratio prevailed, somebody would make greater profits by shifting resources.

The government is trying to crack down, but that risks shifting the activity towards underground money exchangers.

The direction of the wind shifting suggested that a storm would come soon.

The X-rays scatter photons in the CMB, shifting its temperature in an effect known as the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect.

" You could also reply with by shifting the subject and saying, " I'm looking at jobs in this salary range.

Shifting the existing characters would produce a violation of the mask.

If the offer comes from someone new, be skeptical - the deal won't work out as you assume, for conditions are rapidly shifting.

In a sign of the shifting global economic food chain, students from abroad now take up a growing number of spots.

"Oh, man, " mutters Nick, his eyes shifting among the cards, looking for patterns.

Credit investor attitudes may already be shifting, particularly in the riskiest parts of the market that are closely linked with equities.

But all is shifting and changing these days; I'm being led out, away from familiar surroundings and into a vast unknown.

Note: the Iranian position appeared to be shifting this week.

that somehow you grew. And of course it is simply a shifting awareness of the magnitude of your field.

The fighter would stay close to the ground, rolling, leaping and shifting, and wait for an opening to attack his opponent's lower body.

The State Department is boosting productivity, doubling the number of shifts in a day and shifting consular staff to high-demand sites.

Mr. Schmidt says the company is shifting more engineering and sales resources to those areas, and away from less-promising projects.

You begin a new day across the earth this year for the cycles are shifting once more.

He was torn between shifting the blame to his subordinates and avoiding so antagonizing them that they would turn on him .

"I will say that the presumption of innocent until proven guilty applies to everybody, " the careful Merkel said, shifting in her chair.

Over the shifting desert plains , across mountains all in flames. Through howling winds and driving rains , to be by your side .

In 10 weeks, Microsoft Corp. will begin retiring Windows XP by shifting the operating system into a more limited support plan.

Shifting people permanently off the land will be a stern test of Chinese policy planning, which is not faultless.

IT CAN sometimes feel as if bankers in Asia are shifting their focus backwards along the economic food chain.

Even before this disaster, we were already thinking about shifting some of our production to the States and China.

The utility model is compact in structure, convenient operation and of a high shifting precision.

Let me clarify by shifting back to my story: In the niche market I was working in, the problem I was working on was relatively small.

The wet multi- disk shifting clutch is one of main parts of power-shift tractor' gearing.

But some of that gain is from shifting traffic from established AOL sites that were closed.

And that often requires handling shifting demands that would be almost unimaginable back home.

Several analysts say the China-Iran relationship is shifting somewhat, in ways that could erode Beijing's sense of obligation to Tehran.

Magnification expounds overcoming obstacles, exceeding the boundaries, shifting paradigms, achieving the unparalleled benefiting humankind.

Influence and margins are shifting to more adventurous internet and content ventures run by entrepreneurs less bound to party dictates.

But investors will fear the shifting pattern of demand and supply could make this renegotiation the thin end of a wedge.

The GDrive would follow this logic to its conclusion by shifting the contents of a user's hard drive to the Google servers.

The kaleidoscope of shifting interests of the nations during the negotiation made it impossible to sort out the "winners" and "losers" .

Shifting the true cost of driving onto the driver would be a radical departure from what goes on now.

The dissolved oxygen and cholesterol content in cholesterol solution were detected by means of phase-shifting and phase lock means.

Objective: To understand the shifting of prison mental disorder in forensic of competency to serve a sentence.

An autocollimator and a microscope objective . By vertical shifting of the reading telescope the distance of.

Still, with circumstances shifting, ensure that what you organise can be rearranged when events dictate.

Finishes by looking at the war on drugs, shifting attitudes to tobacco, and by evaluating America's drug laws.

Although the shifting dimension had extending the distance of you and me.

Offshoring, however, does involve shifting jobs to another country, but it may not involve transferring jobs to another organisation.

Despite subsidies, electric cars and hybrids (which can run off batteries or a generator powered by an engine) are shifting sluggishly.

Back then, China's economy was shifting into overdrive, but its roads and power grid weren't up to the task.

Xiao Wang is prone to shifting blame onto other people, so none of his friends like him.

The paper discusses problems resulted from analog shift impulsion by means of analysis and experiment on the shifting logic.

He and his wife are considering shifting their office to their home.

Reversing reforms and shifting back to such financial repression is not a sensible economic strategy for India, argues Mr Subramanian.

Should a time arise in which you must gain entry to this accursed fortress, use the Scepter of the Shifting Sands on the sacred gong.

Pundits are at a loss to explain football's shifting fortunes, but much of it can be ascribed to just one factor -- last summer's World Cup.

The limitless number of gear ratios also means that the nudging motion caused by shifting is no longer present.

Newsweek magazine decided to discontinue its print version, shifting to online only publications next year.

In a world of shifting past, one morning the quarryman awakes and is no more the boy who could not hold it in.

The Internet was designed to be beyond the reach of governments, shifting power to individuals or private organizations.

Since roughly June, Chinese officials have been shifting their focus away from controlling inflation towards supporting growth.

Set-shifting refers to shifting all of your focus to a new task, and not leaving any behind on the last one.

Meanwhile, authorities are busily shifting the goal posts in a way that would give any Olympic athlete fits on the playing field.

Models have become primary artifacts of software design, thereby shifting much of the focus away from the corresponding program code.

China's economic boom and shifting demographics around the region meant a steady climb in energy, food, and raw material prices.

Until the wind stops moving and shifting, you won't know which way to go.

By shifting responsibility from the state to the individual woman, they make society more unsafe in the long run.

American troops are shifting from leading operations, to partnering with Iraqi forces, and, eventually, to a protective overwatch mission.

This changes is sometimes simply labeled capitalism, but full-blown capitalism emerges gradually as part of this shifting social system.

Her lesson for Ms. Abernathy: Even in fields as conservative as banking, the rules on what too feminine for the office are shifting.

The 16th and 17th centuries were a time of shifting political and economic alliances in the Caucasus.

Stage manager duties do not include shifting scenery, running lights or operating the Box Office, etc.

Rising fuel costs and an emphasis on "greener" modes of transportation are shifting priorities in the U. S.

Somehow, by shifting me out to a time zone where it is Friday.

But America and Britain hope to export their way out of trouble, and emerging Asia is slowly shifting towards internal sources of demand.

For the most part, warming temperatures and shifting rain patterns expected from climate change are likely to dry up and deteriorate peat.

The phase shifting technique was applied to determine the tilt angles on the glass blocks and later applied to actual connectors.

In 2005, the Best Buy headquarters in Richfield, Minnesota, started shifting over to a "results only work environment, " or ROWE.

It also estimates a relevance score and sorts the results on this basis, thus shifting irrelevant articles lower down the list.

i can just see the big phony bastard shifting into first gear and asking jesus to send him a few more stiffs.

So in all the tragic, it is kind of an irony that so many of you suffer just by shifting your reality from its place of happening.

So policies to help overweight girls need to work on two levels: promoting healthful behaviors and shifting attitudes.

With the deepening of the opening-up and reform policy, China is gradually shifting from a closed economy to an open economy.

We develop a new genetic algorithm hybridized with an innovative local search procedure (bottleneck shifting) for the faso.

Shifting ice exposes new crevasses with little warning, making the Khumbu Icefall the most dangerous section of a southern Everest ascent.

In the shifting power dynamics of middle school girls, the former friend understood well that she who sneers first sneers best.

In this fast-shifting world, there can be no guarantees attached to any particular job.

Shifting Naaru Sliver summons a Power Circle for a duration inconsistent with its tooltip.

This creates a solution close to the aforementioned seamless shifting of computer instances between devices.

Industry, faced with the pressures of a rapidly shifting market, is already designing new methods to retrain its workers.

Caterpillar, a maker of vehicles that dig, pull or plough, is shifting some of its excavator production from abroad to Texas.

In the wake of the financial crisis central banks are shifting to a broader focus on "macro prudential supervision" (see article).

Perhaps the best indication of the shifting balance of power within the industry is the endless upheaval at Rio.

The invention relates to an actuating device for selecting shifting stages of a shift-by-wire gearshift mechanism.

The results are often not pretty, causing blinking, jumping, or missing design elements, shifting layouts, and distorted positions.

And yet this extraordinary edifice presents a shifting image to observers across time and cultures.

Panosteitis is a common disease of unknown cause that causes pain and a shifting leg lameness in medium and large breed dogs.

After an initial attempt at the creativity task, half the participants spent thirty seconds shifting their eyes horizontally back and forth.

This sensitivity to China's shifting zeitgeist is apparent in the younger painters present in the collection as well.

Technology firms have left the big corporate R&D laboratory behind, shifting the emphasis from research to development. Does it matter?

Now that attitude is shifting, and a growing proportion of high-potential Chinese workers see domestic employers as a better bet.

It feels as if the whole dream world is shifting.

Under the direction of Hannes Meyer, Joost Schmidt became head of the advertising workshop, shifting its emphasis to exhibition design.

The says the growth in patent filings by several countries in northeast Asia confirms shifting patterns of innovation around the world.

Thanks to its appearances on Japanese TV shows, it's now most popularly known for its shape-shifting defense mechanism.

That unilateral measure illustrates how the ground is shifting on regulation towards more unpredictable state action.

Energy: Attitudes to nuclear power are shifting in response to climate change and fears over the security of the supply of fossil fuels.

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

Perhaps radical changes in the environment also demanded that our ancestors deal with a shifting world.

Majumdar said India was also shifting from a policy of investment-based incentive to generation-linked incentives for renewables projects.

This only makes the farrier's work harder, as he supports the shifting weight of the horse.

Heads of lettuce, as well as airline tickets, have shifting prices displayed on an LED on the grocery shelf.

The focus should, instead, be on shifting the farm sector towards the market, while cushioning the impact of high prices on the poor.

You see! The steamed bread is so great! Taste wonderful! Your Tai Chi kungfu, Shifting Bodies and Transposing Shadows. . .

they constantly respond to shifting circumstances by deciding what is most appropriate at the moment.

To mobilize resources to support investment-led growth, central and local governments have been shifting financial burdens to the masses.

Some scientists have warned that Australia was facing a ten-fold increase in heat waves as a shifting climate increases temperatures.

Third, firms with labour-intensive work have been shifting it to cheaper Asian countries like Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia.

Finally, how are other important countries, particularly in Asia, likely to react to a shifting balance of power?

Why should companies be allowed to dodge taxes and sack workers by shifting operations overseas?

The ship was overbalanced by the shifting of its cargo.

Yet even in Britain the ground may be shifting, as the press fills with shrill stories about new migrants from central and eastern Europe.

It involves a gross shifting of attention that disrupts a user's flow and forces him into a new context.

The arena for these struggles is shifting this week to a summit meeting of world leaders at the United Nations.

The effect V-ring indenter on the sheared surface in the fine blanking of shifting fort is investigated by means of finite element method.

By buying Motorola Mobility, a hardware company, they appear to be shifting away from that strategy.

Any new leader will have to cope with a movement whose focus is shifting from salvation to works.

In order to go through this process, I had to transform certain parts of my life while totally shifting others.

The power is shifting from the big corporations to the guy (or girl) in his garage with a single laptop.

An output shaft (4) of the speed shifting mechanism extends downward to be fixedly assembled with a grinding disc (5).

Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and brining more of what you into your life.

Next, he transfers his body weight to his lead foot by shifting his body forward in a relaxed manner.

Now, they want to hold on to a role in a world where power is shifting from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Meanwhile, as foreigners begin shifting out of dollars, we will no longer have access to cheap foreign goods and services.

The ground roughness can be used as one of input parameters in automatic intelligent shifting of crawler vehicles.

The essence of the struggle is opposition to imperialist and particularly superpower monopoly, exploitation and shifting of economic crises.

Only the wind broke it, and the sound of dirt and gravel shifting over the rocks.

Despite shifting to a "prudent" monetary policy stance, the target for broad money growth is still 16 per cent.

With the infinitely adjustable gear ratios at its disposal, the nudging motion caused by shifting is no longer present.

Some reckon the group is now shifting the balance of its assets from media to telecoms.

You are driven by a desire to maintain your balance, even if the ground is shifting beneath your feet.

It is always difficult for outsiders to divine the shifting alliances in Iranian politics.

They were navigating in a violent sea, shifting their weight this way and that to stay upright another day.

Shifting the rural population into big cities is the only way for the nation to modernise.

And as a simple tax-raising measure, shifting the burden on to foreigners will almost always play well with the electorate.

You saw proof of why a Shift will occur. You saw the extractors that have seen this world and seen that it is capable of shifting.