But with about 1.4 million people in prison today, it can be used to shift political power from one part of the state to another.

It would shift political power to the Muslim majority and clear the way for election of a president.

Like big society, it shifts power from the state to the individual and the community.

Their entry into the dynamics began to shift regional power.

The merger is the latest of several recent steps to shift power to the new Government, officials said.

The constitution was changed to shift power away from the president to the parliament.

The approach shifts power from central school administrators to the schools.

But one clear effect would be to shift power away from the regional leaders and back to Moscow.

Here again the purpose has been to shift power to the executive.

The ferry was drifting slowly in the snow, about to shift power.