Sentence examples for attempts of shaping from inspiring English sources

Bolzano took pains to systematize his attempts of shaping all propositions into [A has b].

As Ian Manners has argued, the EU would be a normative power in the sense that it repeatedly attempts to "shape conceptions of the normal" through practices of "diffusion" of its best practices and its effort of capacity building in third countries (Manner, 2002).

But the case riveted the public and fueled a frank discussion online and in the state-run media about the extent — and the limits — of official attempts to shape popular opinion.

Children experience attempts to shape their patterns of work and mobility as a series of surmountable obstacles, disconnected from the process of deciding whether or not they will engage in this work.

Russia's failed attempts to shape the outcome of Ukraine's presidential election in 2004, followed by the orange revolution there (after Georgia's rose revolution in 2003), hit a nerve with Mr Putin.

Before leaving Athens for ERBIL, via Beirut, I received a word from a number of people to think twice before embarking in this trip in the aftermath of Saint Petersburg's failed attempts to shape a joint and common response to the Syrian tragedy.

Now attempts to shape a common foreign policy are a big part of the EU's business.

The understanding of the views and opinions of this expert stakeholder group should be considered in the attempts to shape responsible policy and guidelines for these services.

This is not some kind of partisan political attempt to shape something for the purposes of an election".

(The "media event," which is no event at all until the network camera crews tramp in to make it so, is one example of the attempt to shape the world to subjective corporate fiat).

Messenger argued, as Lyle Denniston explains at SCOTUSblog, that "anything a public employee union does is an attempt to shape matters of 'public concern,' and it should not be able to compel support -- even for part of the monthly dues -- from workers who oppose the union's public policy ambitions".