1.   A border is a dividing line Marking an abrupt shift between two separate, sometimes antagonistic, entities.

2.   There has been an abrupt shift in the government thinking regarding these issues.

3.   As foreclosures increased, real estate investors hunkered down, stung by the abrupt shift in fortune.

4.   All indications are that such abrupt shifts could happen again.

5.   But this abrupt shift to a new plan made it more difficult to pass along all the costs to clients, Macdonald said.

6.   But there has been an abrupt shift in this view in recent months.

7.   For another, an abrupt shift to defensive strategies would invite Moscow to increase its nuclear arsenal to insure it could overwhelm even a limited a American antimissile system.

8.   It seemed too abrupt a shift in thinking.

9.   Nicaragua has suffered through more than its share of abrupt ideological shifts in recent years.

10.   Nothing changes but the schedule of our awareness, and yet it feels like an astronomical jolt, an abrupt shift in our orbit around the sun.