Sentences with phrase «focus shifted away»

These were no longer worlds that didn't care about you, and suddenly the focus shifted away from having a believable world and instead towards having a world that catered directly to the player.

Visceral Games, Senior Level Designer - Dead Space 2 «Over the years our talent and experience grew, as the studio's focus shifted away from EA owned IP and towards licensed action titles like James Bond, Lord of the Rings, The Simpsons and more, we learned a great deal about what makes a good action game, and the desire to turn our own ideas in to intense action games grew.

«When this [new structure] came out and the focus shifted away from management to leadership, I felt there was a great opportunity for us as a school, and as a diocese, and as a state in lots of ways, to really address the needs of our Middle Leaders in terms of professionally developing them,» MacMaster reflects.

A new report from BIS Shrapnel has forecast a surge in mining production over the next four years as the mining industry's focus shifts away from the investment and construction phase of the boom.

Markets were thrown into a tailspin Monday after weekend elections in France and Greece led to a sharp shift in the political landscape with the focus shifting away from austerity.

Now that March is here, the focus shifts away from tax - savings strategies to actual tax filing.

The Asian crisis moved into a second phase, with the focus shifting away from the emerging east Asian economies to Japan.

«Understand that every time you argue with your partner over parenting, the focus shifts away from your child.

Hirst: «Yeah, we ain't gonna sell as much, art shows are gonna get better now the focus shifts away from money...»

When the focus shifts away from environmental virtuousness toward saving oneself a load of cash, it becomes less daunting to do them.

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Hollywood has also shifted its focus away from broader military themes, with movies and television shows honing in on extremes, portraying veterans who are either heroes or victims suffering from PTSD, addiction or suicidal tendencies.

For Nestle, which first sold milk chocolate in the 1880s, a consumer shift away from junk and sugary foods has led the Swiss company to focus on «nutrition, health and wellness,» although it says it is committed to its non-U.S. confectionery business.

«We want to shift away from that fear - based marketing and focus on the fact that approximately 90 percent of cancers are curable if caught in stage I.»

When we shift the focus away from «How can I make a profit?»

The authors of a Harvard Business School paper called Goals Gone Wild warn that the use of goal setting can actually cause a shift in focus, away from important but unspecified goals.

It told the SEC that it didn't want to disclose a ratio because it «would indirectly disclose the absolute number of DAU,» shifting focus away from the growth percentage, which Twitter says is more important.

Cawse felt he needed to shift his focus away from product and into hiring people — and making sure they didn't want to leave once they got there.

Time Inc. has lately shifted its focus away from its print magazines as it seeks to attract a sizable digital audience and pursue new opportunities for revenue growth.

Sarcasm, eye rolling, and biting comments shift the focus away from performance and onto the person, whose self - respect is slowly destroyed.

The answer to this quandary is deceptively simple: We must shift our focus away from what individuals do when hurricanes strike, and turn our attention to the social, economic, and environmental conditions in which we live.

Now a consultant to venture capital firms, Bloom expects large companies to shift away from investing directly in R&D, focusing instead on acquiring startups and spinning off experimental projects that will be less constrained by bureaucracy and Wall Street demands.

The franc's appreciation caused problems for Swiss pharmaceutical companies and other exporters, shifting the economy's focus away from manufacturing to the favored banking sector.

Imran Hirani, Nielsen's vice president of client consulting, said in an interview with PhocusWire: «In the last few years, There's been a shift in the industry to focus media buying on the basis of «what is the cheapest available media within a day part of ad length,» and away from how well it delivers to a desired audience.»

Most importantly, the deal shifts focus away from the firm's very public humiliation.

«Then you can shift the conversation away from the salary that you want to focusing on what you are owed based on your performance and the market,» Donovan says.

The focus is a shift away from anticipating merits for hard work toward proactively creating your own space within your company or in the community to become an acknowledged expert in your field.

It is desperately pivoting, shifting its focus away from bricks and mortar and to online sales.

However, things are likely to change as global stock markets get overheated and central banks start selling the assets they purchased earlier, leading investors to shift focus away from equities to other asset classes, including gold.

MobiHealthNews recently reported that more and more consumer - facing digital health companies are signaling a shift in focus away from unregulated fitness and wellness space and towards clinical applications for their technologies.

The debate among politicians has shifted to now focus on doctors intimidation and away from the focus on patient outcomes that dominated the debate during the 2010 Fall session of the Assembly.

The divestment would complete the company's gradual shift away from its original focus on generic drugs and nuclear imaging toward branded specialty pharmaceuticals, which now comprise the bulk of its revenues.

As a startup, it's easy for your focus to shift away from SEO.

Global growth outweighs geopolitical concerns The global economy continued its strong momentum over the summer, shifting some of the focus away from geopolitics.

The new project indicates a further shift for Exxon, away from international projects and towards a focus on domestic endeavors, specifically those involving shale oil and gas.

Raines said investors can expect GameStop to continue to move away from stores that are dedicated to selling games as it shifts its focus to telecommunications stores and collectible stores, such as the GameStop ThinkGeek store in New York City.

Growth in China particularly could shift investors away from focusing on the challenges the company faces and towards appreciating its potential.

However, the focus has shifted a bit in the last few months away from the headline figure.

Yet Democrats have largely viewed that debate as an attempt to shift focus away from guns — even a cop - out for Republicans.

Twenge and Campbell are drawing here on research from the so - called positive psychology movement, which recently has attempted to shift the focus of psychological research away from disease and disorder to a study of the character strengths that make for happiness and human flourishing.

Let us focus on the crucial issue of shifting away from dependence on oil without recourse to other dangerous and environmentally destructive fuels.

Among evangelicals, so much emphasis has been placed on the doctrine of substiutionary atonement that the focus has shifted away from FOLLOWING the life and teachings of Jesus (in order to be saved from sin) to simply BELIEVING in the death and resurrection of Jesus (in order to be saved from judgment).

The second major change has been in shifting the centre of focus and attention in thinking about media away from the intended effects of media messages toward the active role audiences play in selection and use of their own media - mix for meaning - seeking and meaning - satisfying purposes.

I have to say that all this wonderful hype on our president surely has turned focus away from the whole questioning of his birth certificate and has shifted the focus to the «death» of Osama Bin Laden.

Gerstenberger has subtly shifted the focus away from what the priests of Leviticus were talking about — namely effecting «kapparah» — and toward what is useful for Christian theological speculations, namely «atonement.»

It shifted the focus away from the aspects of Marxist - Leninist philosophy that were still justly attractive.

The ecumenical focus has shifted from church unity, from reconciling the historic communities, to the service of the world, and therefore away from the kind of ecumenism that has been my chief concern.

When sin is defined in terms of sexual purity, the focus of the Christian life shifts away from expression of love for God and neighbor to an obsession with internal conflict between «higher» and «lower» impulses.

The shift in their therapeutic focus is away from a primary concern with what occurs within individuals (the preoccupation of the mainstream of therapy since Freud) and toward enhancing interpersonal relationships and small social systems such as families.

Shifting our focus away from worldly investments and toward heavenly ones is much more sustainable and life - giving because our connection with Christ above all will weather the inevitable storms of our lives and will provide a much richer and deeper meaning than any reward overworking will give.

Treasury Wine Estates, owner of Penfolds and Wolf Blass, has deliberately shifted its focus away from Britain to concentrate on booming sales to China and on supercharging its US operations.