Current European energy policies were mostly shaped when the European economy was booming.
Stones of hail, mostly shaped like, and literally as large as grapefruit weighing one to to two pounds each, catapulted upon the city.
If social behavior were mostly shaped by ecology, then related species living in different environments should display a variety of social structures.
The family spent summers in Houston, but the boys were mostly shaped by life in Jedda, a blend of British expat culture and strict Saudi norms.
The songs are mostly shaped in her traditional chord-to-chord method, their melodies looping behind the tempo of the guitars and, for once, in a spirit of uplift.
I had my own preconceived notions about chess players, mostly shaped by bad teen movies, but I saw plenty of "normal" children at the Supernationals; I also saw a high school boy carrying a stuffed sheep with a studded collar under his arm.
Landscape patterns in the northwestern United States are mostly shaped by the interaction of fire and succession, and conversely, vegetation patterns influence fire dynamics and plant colonization processes.
Major dispersals inferred from the Amazon basin towards northwestern South America, the Atlantic forests and the eastern slope of the Andes have mostly shaped the evolution and diversification of the group.
A theoretical expression of this worry is "relativism," the idea that ethical, political, and legal standards for a particular country or region are mostly shaped by the traditions, beliefs, and conditions of that country or region (see the entry on moral relativism).
I am very much in debt to this Dutch-born artist, whose artistic life was mostly shaped by his experience living in France.
