Sentence examples for player in shaping from inspiring English sources

Mr. González, for example, was a key player in shaping democratic Spain after the dictator Francisco Franco died in November 1975.

A key player in shaping the new thinking has been Oliver Letwin, the cabinet minister in charge of the white paper.

She was a key player in shaping the Dodd-Frank reform law, especially the part that seeks to forestall future bailouts.

More broadly, many analysts here see the failure of Turkey's policy to result in a peaceful outcome in Syria as a rebuke to the efforts by Mr. Erdogan's Islamist governing party — the Justice and Development Party, known by its Turkish initials, A.K.P. — to present Turkey as a pivotal player in shaping regional affairs.

The experiments highlight the general unsteadiness of dike swarms and that the distribution and alteration of weak substratum may become a major player in shaping a volcano's architecture.

Cold weather during the Ice Ages also appears to have been a key player in shaping the mountains of North America and Europe.

It is also making them important players in shaping the young business of selling entertainment on the Web.

Dr. Foner, whose book "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery" won a Pulitzer, said the notion of African-Americans as key players in shaping history was second nature to scholars, but "still hasn't percolated out to the general historical understanding".

And perhaps these events will also drive Russia's leadership to take control of things, so that it may remain one of the sponsors of a political solution and one of the players in shaping the new regional order.

But more than that, because we are the home of the English language, our media has disproportionate clout - BBC World Service of course, but in the age of digital communication, every BBC channel, The Times, The Guardian, all are big players in shaping public opinion.

The lineage-specific evolution and loss of CNSs are major players in shaping the abundance of CNSs in a lineage (fig. 2; table 1).