The pivot point is a shifting understanding of American sovereignty.

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But City won just one of its next five games, shifting the balance to the point where by April 8, United led by eight points and had a 95% chance of taking the title.

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But Manchester City won just one of its next five games, shifting the balance to the point where by April 8, United led by eight points and had a 95% chance of taking the title.

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The employment landscape is shifting and it does point to a more flexible workforce, that is, contractors, versus full time employees.

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His departure at a time, when the point-of sale is shifting to mobile platforms, leaves PayPal facing big challenges from other payment transaction middlemen like the credit card heavyweights: Visa (V), MasterCard (MA), and American Express (AXP).

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But that is just the point: the digital curve these days is shifting and steepening faster than ever.

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Defenders of the government also point to climate change, yet the People's Republic is not the only nation affected by shifting weather patterns.

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Mr. Hollande continued to point to what he described as his own influence in shifting the focus within Europe away from a diet of fiscal discipline alone as a means out of the protracted sovereign-debt crisis.

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With her, the point is plenitude: more boasts, more hooks, more craziness, more shape-shifting, more cognitive dissonance, more pleasure.

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