The court has often shaped rather than merely reflected public opinion most famously on civil rights.
More than military or political power, however, more than guns, revolutions, or monarchic decrees, demography is what has often shaped the relationships between countries.
In previous years, a fairly sharp debate in the administration on how tough to be on China has often shaped the tone of the language.
Even within a local market, affordability depends on where you land in the income distribution; and how much education you have often shapes your income today and in the future.
In recent years, smuggling trials in Italy have often been shaped more by politics than by the pursuit of truth or justice.
Rather, we must face up to our responsibility to manage the animal populations whose size, location and feeding habits have often been shaped, consciously or not, by our actions.
Those who write prolifically about angels or metaphysical topics have often stated that those clouds with shapes such as these mean that angels are present for us.
In recent years, the deliberations have often been rancorous, shaped by the need to close huge budget gaps by raising property and sales taxes, shutting firehouses and scaling back services.
But the Party's destiny has often been shaped in New York.
It has often been shaped by populations upon whom it was imposed; a large number of common English words ("jungle," "nirvana," "bungalow") were, for instance, taken from Indian languages.
