Such descriptions are unforgettable, and have decisively shaped the whole course of Keats's posthumous fame.
An enduring source of the French pride is that their ideas and historical experiences have decisively shaped the values of other nations.
Of these, the rivers probably have been of the greatest historical and cultural significance, for waterways have decisively shaped forms of settlement and agriculture, determined fundamental political and economic patterns, and helped define the nature of Southeast Asians' worldview and distinctive cultural syncretism.
Her authoritative pronouncements have decisively shaped the later Islamic legal tradition.
Taylor's philosophy has been decisively shaped by his political work.
They have also decisively shaped Jewish architectural history, as many of their designs are influenced by Jewish themes, ideas, and imagery.
It holds that Canada's culture, political history and economy have been decisively shaped by the exploitation and export of a series of "staples" such as fur, fish, wood, wheat, mined metals and fossil fuels.
Showing how these political philosophies have all been decisively shaped by the core values of the Enlightenment, he demonstrates that each one contains useful insights that survive their failures as comprehensive doctrines and that should inform our thinking about political legitimacy.
Those might be my desert island authors – no question – yet it has been nonfiction that has at least as decisively shaped my view of the world, certainly once I was a young adult.
But with "Mother," Ms. Maines has decisively left country behind.
But before the Bush administration's plans could take shape, the accidental sinking this month of a Japanese fishing vessel by an American submarine off Hawaii has decisively shifted the landscape in one of the United States' most important military alliances.
