The senator added that the cornerstone of U.S.strategy should be the effort to shift responsibility to the Afghan people.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

"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

Mr.Mesic helped discourage nationalism and encouraged a shift to the West with his country's entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

And NATO expert Jean Sylvestre Mongrenier says it reflects a shift to a more balanced distribution of power between Europe and the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

The U.S.presence,Mr.Obama said, will shift from military to civilian leadership, with a focused mission of training Iraqi forces, counter-terrorism operations, and protecting U.S.civilian and diplomatic personnel.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

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

With hundreds of farmers not planting traditional food crops this season, Nkansah believes there is a real risk that the shift to biofuels will result in food shortages.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

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

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

The organization more recently has called for the government to allow unhindered access to aid workers in make-shift camps that house hundreds of thousands of Tamils, including women and children.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

The alleged use of special operations troops in the raid could signal a shift away from the controversial U.S.tactic of relying on long-range missile assaults to take out terrorist targets.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

"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