Sentence examples for bid to shape from inspiring English sources

"For hundreds of years," King writes, "Western governments have used the methods of state capitalism in their bid to shape the world around them.

Divisions have sharpened between the party's centrist wing and the Howard-era hardliners who resent Mr Turnbull's ego and his reformist instincts.The same divisions have shaken Mr Turnbull's bid to shape the Liberals' approach to climate change.

Nokia is taking the smartphone battle to Android with the launch of a new handset in a collaboration with Microsoft that represents a last-ditch bid to shape computing's new frontier.

And in the book "Losing Control: The Emerging Threats to Western Prosperity," Stephen D. King, the chief economist at HSBC, the London-based global bank, notes, "Western governments have used the methods of state capitalism for hundreds of years in their bid to shape the world around them..

And in the book "Losing Control: The Emerging Threats to Western Prosperity," Stephen D. King, the chief economist at HSBC, the London-based global bank, notes, "Western governments have used the methods of state capitalism for hundreds of years in their bid to shape the world around them...

PAGE B1 Business EXELON VOWS TO CUT EMISSIONS, And Hopes to Shape Debate In a bid to shape the debate on carbon dioxide rules, Exelon, the electric company based in Chicago, said it will promise to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 by an amount larger than its total emissions in 2008.

If those two earlier movements had limited themselves to persuasion in their respective bids to shape the soul of the nation, the Christian Right combined persuasion with raw political power and sought to force its agenda on the nation by controlling the nation's political structures.

The proposal, which will be formally introduced later this week, is part of a series of principles the nation's largest business lobby will offer in a bid to help shape the debate about upgrading U.S. roads, bridges, airports and other critical infrastructure.

Many Turks took to Twitter to complain about the ban and the president of the airline's Hava-Is union, Atilay Aycin, called it a bid by the management "to shape the company to fit its own political and ideological stance".

What that reading of the American scene gave Mr. Strausberg was both a feel for what his own bid should be and enough information to advise the Tokyo office on how to shape a bid that not only could be attractively priced to Japanese investors but would be accepted as well.

Analysts say the new programs are part of the government's bid to use television as a more effective instrument to shape public opinion.