11.   Bush has vowed to shift regulatory power from the federal government to the states.

12.   But a bill before the Senate would shift the power of certification to a hostile Congress.

13.   Chief Justice William Rehnquist and his fellow conservatives have made no secret of their desire to alter the balance of federalism, shifting power from Washington to the states.

14.   Comparison shopping is one of the key ways in which the Internet is shifting market power from producers and distributors to ordinary consumers.

15.   District attorneys have routinely fought advocates who have wanted to shift power from them to a central state agency.

16.   First they shifted executive power to the prime minister.

17.   Hiroshi Okuda, chief executive of Toyota since August, has said he wants to shift decision-making power to the countries where plants are located.

18.   In any good design, the power is shifted transparently, so the driver is never aware that the vehicle is compensating for a variation in traction.

19.   It shifts power toward an imperial presidency.

20.   It would shift more power to the lowest levels, creating the sort of school-based councils that have been increasingly advocated by parents groups and education experts.