Tenant advocates view these figures and others as indicating a general shift toward higher rents in the city.

This led to a general shift of businesses from the river toward the tracks.

Relatively recently, however, a general shift has occurred in which patients are more involved in medical decision-making than before.

During that century, there was a general shift toward a less formal religious service; this movement spread across most denominational lines.

Needs to be taken as a point of reference for a more general shift in culture and that can be the only useful legacy.

Those concerns, in turn, may be part of a general shift away from global affairs to private ones.

She suggests that there has been a general shift toward black artists at pop radio in the last three to five years.

This brought a short burst of laughter from the group, but no general shift in their attention.

But with the rise of Pop and a general shift in the artistic climate, these figures got him his first attention.

Some critics have argued that a general shift from heterosexual to homosexual love can be observed through the course of his writing career.