That may have shaped his later notoriety.
Brown's background may have shaped his understated personality.
They act as detectives, tracing the behavior backward to the experience that may have shaped it.
Just as it shaped this election, television may have shaped the messy, enthralling aftermath even more.
This familiarity with the method may have shaped their preferences in public financial reporting standards.
People who analyze how Mormonism may have shaped Romney generally look to theology.
But the Jets' draft had not always been so productive, and that may have shaped Kensil's theory.
That Shakespeare may have been a closeted Catholic, and his teenage run-ins with anti-Catholic henchmen of the Virgin Queen may have shaped his dramatic sensibilities.
Organisms that are present when we're two months old may have shaped our brain, but they have long since disappeared when we hit twenty or forty or sixty.
By Jill Lepore Carson's domestic world may have shaped her understanding of the natural one; both, she learned, were complex and sometimes fragile ecosystems.
Nevertheless, loss of foliage to H. Irma may have shaped the type of damage (i.e., a greater number of stem breaks) María inflicted on the forest.
