By 2002, the ratio had shifted to almost 5:1 in favor of emergency assistance.

The constriction was tightening; it would be a decade before the ratio shifted back.

As we've shifted from leaves to seeds, the ratio of omega-6s to omega-3s in our bodies has shifted, too.

This July, the ratio shifted - 14.2 percent foresaw more jobs, but 17.9 percent saw less.

Its current ratio of 8 to 6 in favor of the Democrats may well shift to 7 to 6 for the Republicans.

As a result, the ratio of power between Vietnam and China has shifted markedly in China's favor.

Between 1914 and the present, the ratio of military and civilian casualties in war has shifted dramatically.

But on Oct. 24, the Wisconsin project found, the ratio shifted.

But even here, the ratio is shifting.