The axis of the heart shifts toward the hypertrophied ventricle for two reasons:

"There is a realization in Europe that the axis of the art market has shifted to New York," said Michael Goedhuis, a British dealer.

The axis shifted, the poles glaciated, the continent of Atlantis was submerged, and the Quaternary geologic period began.

Cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis, where the axis of rotation of a planet may have shifted or the crust may have shifted dramatically.

The curvature of the plan ensures that the axis is constantly shifting.

At this point, Christianity's axis is shifting from developed nations to the developing ones.

In the mid-1970's the political axis shifted.

This theory, created to explain palaeomagnetic data, suggests that the Earth's axis of rotation shifted one or more times during the general timeframe attributed to snowball Earth.

In instants swords were drawn, axes shifted to the striking hand.

Now, the axis of history has shifted, and after 50 years of war between east and west, we are currently experiencing a world crisis revolving around north-south relations.