We manipulate the environment constantly in order to shape attitudes and behavior.
Everyone, in order to shape him or herself during this lifetime, holds on to what he or she wants of the traces that time leaves all around itself.
And, more broadly, we need to become more aware of the strategies of manipulation that all governments employ in order to shape opinions and conduct.
But it's not, because those who want to convince us that Lehman's failure was not a big deal are doing so in order to shape future policy.
Buried in that, and often unspoken, is the question of the skills our leaders need in order to shape these changes.
Poverty compelled me to break off writing the novel in order to shape another, different book which would help keep me alive.
The extreme case is the boarding prep school, which separates children from their parents at the age of eight in order to shape them into members of a detached elite.
It is time to revisit the Pan-African imagination that was captured in Manchester 70 years ago in order to shape the next period of struggle against (neo colonial rule.
To turn intentions into policy, previous transition teams have produced confidential guides, known as "promise books," that pull from the candidate's words in order to shape the priorities of officials across the government.
There is nothing surreptitious about it — it's all part of the mundane work that lexicographers do to keep track of how words and phrases develop over time, in order to shape and revise their entries.
He added that Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Barak were "meeting one on one with certain cabinet ministers in order to shape a majority in the 14," referring to the 14-member security cabinet.
