Sentence examples for once shaped from inspiring English sources

Their lives, once shaped by their quirks, dreams and contrivances, are subject here to a chilly regimentation.

What once shaped up as a week of desultory brinksmanship over a potential government shutdown has been largely drained of suspense.

The old triumvirate of writer-agent-publisher that once shaped the shopfronts of British booksellers has disappeared under remorseless sales pressure.

The exercise is not so different in spirit from the way public intellectuals like John Kenneth Galbraith once shaped discussions of economic policy and public figures like Walter Cronkite helped sway opinion on the Vietnam War.

All too soon, walls of colorful volumes are reduced to a cube of brown cartons resting on a pallet, without a hint of the academic landscape they once shaped.

"In the past, it was an E.U.-U.S. business, or, maximum, the Quad," Mr. Amorim said, referring to a group comprising the United States, the European Union, Canada and Japan that once shaped the direction of trade talks.

And where he could once shape his fate by reaching for poetry in his own words, he is now hostage to a large extent to monthly job-creation and unemployment numbers churned out by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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He once again shaped a first-rate company and introduced the realism in scenery and costume that has since characterized the group's productions.

Such paintings are forgotten now, but they once helped shape Britain's self-image.

EF Tournament football's perennial dark horses are once again shaping up to be an outside tip to go far in Poland and Ukraine.