The surprising shift demonstrated Microsoft's continuing ability to use its market power in the computer industry to push aside a rival.

The Republican-dominated House, meanwhile, deserves praise for its surprising doctrinal shift on the farm bill.

Both Cargill and Compson represent another surprising shift in the e-book market.

But in a surprising shift last Friday, President Bush lent support to the European initiative.

This was the outcome of simmering resentments and the surprising social shifts, in part caused in part by the Black Death.

So Sauchenko made a surprising shift to the club three.

A law of complementary contrasts often underlies seemingly surprising shifts in taste.

The shifts, if surprising, rarely seem arbitrary.

He cites its surprising shifts in rhythm and key.

Permitted to win, Hayman made a surprising shift to the diamond nine.