Mr. Claremont has almost no equal in his long-term shaping of "X-Men" adventures.
If that cause is not clearly articulated and if Gates doesn't come back, then Microsoft probably only has about 5-7 good years left before it starts to look like AOL, Netscape or Yahoo - other once-mighty forces who, after the vision left with their respective founders, floundered about only to become irrelevant in the long-term shaping of an economy.
These correlations are likely to be the result of the long-term shaping of the primary structure of genic and non-genic DNA by a regime of mutation of which central features have been maintained by natural selection.
Ten years on, the long-term shape of Ground Zero is coming into focus.
As John Hare affirms, "If we are to endorse wholeheartedly the long-term shape of our lives, we have to see this shape as consistent with our happiness" (1996, 88).
In essence, the nurses are "deciding the long-term shape and fate of the colony".
Bonsai practice focuses on long-term cultivation and shaping of one or more small trees growing in a container, beginning with a cutting, seedling, or small tree of a species suitable for bonsai development.
It also embraces diversity, suggesting that, instead of trying to find a globalized one-size-fits-all approach to change, it is vital to recognize that each community consists of a "mosaic of peoples, traditions, beliefs, and institutions uniquely shaped by long term pressures of geology, human history, culture, local environment, and changing human needs".
Similarly, evaluations typically have time horizons of one to three years and do not explore how interventions may give rise to unexpected side-effects over the longer run as stakeholders adjust to a new environment, shift the long term balance of market power, or shape market institutions in ways that may have long lasting effects.
Style, short-term shaping, long-term architecture.
