Sentence examples for have given shape from inspiring English sources

Across the sweep of Indian religious history, at least five elements have given shape to the Hindu religious tradition: doctrine, practice, society, story, and devotion.

But that embankment – the Hornby Vellard, completed in 1784 – was very real and can be said to have given shape to the modern city of Mumbai (the official name since 1995).

The problem with appeals to natural teleology in ethics is rather that it is hard to see how we can employ teleological concepts in non-arbitrary ways without appealing precisely to the evolutionary causal histories that have given shape to and organized these traits into coherent functional systems.

Political consciousness and solidarity have given shape and strength to civil societies, making it increasingly difficult for recalcitrant establishments to go unchallenged.

We have become so used to retrieving our data with a soupcon of creativity that we forget that besides connectivity, the internet really only means what designers have given shape to.

I think 360hiphop has given shape and form to his political conscience".

Her biodynamic planting calendar has given shape and substance to our past five years of gardening.

Standing with McCain at Hoa Lo brought Kerry face to face with the contradiction that had given shape to his life as surely as the prison had given shape to McCain's.

An advertisement on NTA for "Andrew Checking Out," which he had watched as a child, had given shape to his longings.

The private heart of his palace concealed, like a genetic code, the principle that had given shape to the edifice and informed the state.

Their feelings are summed up in a coarse three-word rhyme that has given shape to Twitter feeds, Facebook pages and dozens of Web sites.