Sentence examples for only shaping from inspiring English sources

He is understandably reluctant to make this event the only shaping force in his biography – it was a long while after he started doing interviews that he even made it known – but of course it doesn't go away.

These differences are not only shaping the leading political debates of our day, but framed in terms of constitutional rights like free speech and due process, will also determine the outcomes of important constitutional challenges to legislative and regulatory reforms.

In this temporal-spatial process, the cultural exchanges occurring in this area are not only shaping the cultural ecologies of those involved but also integrating their societies.

User-generated content whether from a teenager wielding a cellphone camera or a major corporation, an Oscar-winner or a political campaign is not only shaping a livelier press, but a freer society.

LGBT parents are not only shaping the lives of their children, but are helping to shape and change the conversation in America.

In this way the pregnancy and childbirth of Mary becomes a role model account, not only shaping normality but also depicting the perfect.

Humans have not only shaped the vegetation zones of Europe.

McLeod and the lenders were not only shaped by deteriorating norms, they helped degrade them.

For Torino, Superga not only shaped their future but also carved a new identity.

The latter requires public support, he said, "which is only shaped by informed debate".

Qaddafi has not only shaped the battlefield: he has shaped the human landscape of Libya for forty years.