function shift

And Asians also showed a shift toward the GOP in the mid-terms.

To prevent intruders or extruders from withdrawing his mind from the text, he exercises the Inhibitory function of the Attention.

Little girls perhaps represent the attractive function of adornment: they like to be thought pretty.

This is hardly a function—parties even in the big political country-houses are more or less informal.

The question was put rather testily and caused the other to shift uncomfortably before making answer.

No definite proof of this position has, however, as yet been adduced, and the function of the compound is entirely unknown.