(C) Gradually shaped them into individuals who would be useful in Chilean society.
He gradually shaped Reliance into a petrochemicals megalith, despite a stodgy economy and crippling government regulations and bureaucracy.
As the narrator shows us the physical symptoms of fear, grief, desire, anxiety, love and guilt, we come to understand the man being gradually shaped by them.
A screw-retained, interim implant prosthesis was instrumental in gradually shaping the soft tissue over the course of the 3 surgeries.
To this end, he uses research as a medium as another artist might use a pencil or a brush, to lay out ideas and gradually shape them, the goal being to create new models of reality.
He was assigned to travel with Harland Sanders himself, and out there, on the lonely highways and byways, Thomas gradually shaped the persona of the genial old gent in the white suit with a secret recipe up his sleeve.
According to gravity theory and computer simulations, she said, dark matter, which only interacts gravitationally, should start out in rounded lumps and then gradually shape itself into filaments and sheets as these lumps collapse along their shortest axes first.
In any period when there is a housing shortage there are bound to be dislocations and disturbances, but things seem to be gradually shaping up, and homeless individuals and groups are getting a roof over their heads.
The glass and chrome world outside the tram gradually shape-shifts into lanterns and fairy lights: from pensions and portfolios to Dried Seafood Street – all the way to Kennedy Town and back for the price of a carrot.
The random gush of information and observation starts to coalesce into patterns; the leapfrogging backward and forward in time is gradually shaped into history, or at least becomes dried handprints in the warped concrete of memory.
