Even the tributaries would forsake it after abrupt and violent shifts, defecting to other rivers.

Grant waved his arm, discovered that this slight move- ment caused a violent shift in his rotation.

A wind shear is a sudden, violent shift in the direction and speed of winds aloft.

It was another violent shift in a life and a career which never had an even, an easy or predictable pattern.

Though prone to violent shifts of mood that closely follow the situations, the score has a taut linear continuity.

If the new story takes violent shifts, you lose the audience who came to revisit the original.

The biggest change of color imaginable is between E flat and E natural, a violent shift.

But it pays to stay vigilant, because in turbulent times hair becomes unstable, subject to violent shifts in style.

Dust-swarmed inertial dampers struggled against the violent shifts in mass, but couldn't entirely save them from the impact.