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

In light of the Pakistani Taliban's alleged involvement, some speculate there could be a shift in US policy toward Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

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

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

Jordan and Egypt issued statements critical of the apparent shift in U.S.policy.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

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

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

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

Despite Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's campaign rhetoric, which signaled a possible Japanese shift away from Washington, he and President Barack Obama said their countries' long-standing alliance will continue.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

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

"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

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

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