According to Buttles, this shift "suggests changes in cultural and political interaction spheres".

The shift also suggests that China has concluded it cannot allow public anger to escalate further.

These shifts in the structure of the American economy suggest that downturns have become fewer and probably less severe.

Only minute shifts of light on her shirt suggested that she was moving at all.

The huge shift by no means suggests Japan is getting poorer or losing its ability to influence the global financial markets.

At the same time, the same shifts suggested a struggle for domination.

These shifts suggest the need for a reallocation of court resources.

But their slightly apprehensive shifts of position suggested that this gathering was not a real community.

Beijing's shift suggests that Chinese hard-liners do have some regard for what the world thinks.

But the shift in the architect's position suggests that the governor may no longer be an active champion of his cause.