shift away from something

I didn't like the way her eyes shifted away from me.

Now he'd like to shift the nation's capital away from Washington.

In 1955 the school began shifting its focus away from military training.

Thus the focus of education itself began to shift, ever so slowly, away from the past and toward the present.

No decision has been made about shifting away from live production, the staff members said.

"I hope the focus begins to shift away from just one small group."

Without quite meaning to, she shifted a little away from him.

"They got into Germany at a time when the whole market was shifting away from their model."

"They want to shift responsibility away from themselves," he said.

If the power had shifted away from them, the Generals didn't seem to mind.