Examples:

• While U.S. special envoy, James Dobbin, was on his way to Qatar, the Karzai government decided to shift gears.
• Let us leave behind discord and division among nations and shift gears to combine our efforts in order to face this common challenge.
• Okay, let me shift gears and show you another target.
• Around noon, Stocker and Danks shift gears.
• I invented a plasma antenna, to shift gears.
• This makes it really urgent that we shift gears.
• You've got to step outside to shift gears.
• To be able to shift gears in poker is a good skill.
• Let's shift gears from what you did right, to what you did wrong.
• We have to shift gears.