"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

Some abstraction is also apparent in the shift from visual to aural imagery in describing God's self-manifestations or theophanies.

某些抽离在从纳贡者到听见神的自我宣称,或者神显的想像中也是十分明显的。

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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