If there is a conflict between the baby's and mother's welfare after it is born, all public sympathy will have shifted away from the mother.

When Stephen switched from a pro-Byzantine position to cooperation with Iran, his religious sympathies shifted toward anti-Chalcedonism, leading to its official adoption by the catholicos of Iberia in 598 or 599.

Many readers find their sympathies shifting at this point in the play to Cassius, since Brutus treats him coldly, and Cassius tries so hard to remain friends.

While the sympathies of the crowd had not shifted to our side, still the momentum carrying us to disaster had been broken.

When the jury finds out how much money the owners make in relation to how much the average N.F.L. player earns, sympathies may shift.

By the end of the meal, in fact, my sympathies had shifted squarely into his corner.

Whitfield's sympathies soon shifted to the Puritan movement following the persecution led by Archbishop William Laud.

The scribe's sympathies shifted.

Her sympathies could shift, and you would do well to ponder your fate if she turned against you.

With regard to the Israel-Palestine conflict, in July 2006 he stated that as he gets older his sympathies are shifting back to Israel.