7 sentences with 'shift'
Example sentences and phrases with the word shift and other words derived from it.
• « A 24-hour shift awaited him at the city's main fire station, but he loved his job in Squad One, a group dedicated to technically challenging rescues. »
• « This eastward shift culminated in the transfer of the capital of the empire from the city of Rome to the Greek city of Byzantium, renamed Constantinople after the empire that ordered the move: Constantine. »
• « Unrelated to the struggle between Greeks and non-Greeks, the Hellenistic period saw a significant shift in gender relations. »
• « Moreover, Tiberius oversaw a momentous shift in the priorities of the Roman state: the Roman Empire no longer embarked on a sustained campaign of expansion as it had done since the early decades of the Republic half a millennium earlier. »
• « This does not seem to have been a conscious political choice on Tiberius' part, but rather a shift in priorities: the Senate was now composed of landed elites who did not base their identity on war, and Tiberius himself saw little benefit in fighting Persia or invading Germania (he also feared that successful generals might threaten his power, at one point ordering the war in Germania to be suspended). »
• « This was a huge demographic shift in a very short time that had lasting consequences for European society, thanks mainly to the labour shortages introduced by the Black Death. »