Michael Carrigan, 33, who also attended Holy Ghost, said his faith also shaped his ideology.
But a review of hundreds of pages of records and more than two dozen interviews suggest his time as a young activist was more influential in shaping his ideology than previously known, and far more political than typical humanitarian work.
The ideology that shaped his goals was, broadly, the allure of large numbers: get enough rich people and companies here, and they will support a government that can keep the city running for everyone else; make policies in public health, education and policing that, when multiplied across eight million people, will create a healthier, smarter, safer city.
I take it that Obama relies more on reason than stiff ideology in shaping his thinking.
We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small "l" liberalism.
The document was the first to reveal that Lloyd has barred victims of rape from obtaining abortions, as he has done with other teens in government custody, and one of the clearest descriptions yet of how his ideology is shaping the agency's treatment of pregnant girls.
It troubled him that Salafiya, even in its nonmilitant form, had helped shape the ideology of groups like Al Qaeda.
One of the most interesting threads in the book is the intersection between business and movements with a Utopian strain: modernism lent American office buildings a distinct aesthetic, before the counterculture of the 1960s helped shape the ideology of Silicon Valley.Yet Mr Saval believes that these promises have been repeatedly betrayed.
Although it usually receives little attention, the power to shape the ideology of the Federal courts is one of the more far-reaching Presidential prerogatives because judges appointed to the courts may affect policy for decades on issues like abortion, separation of church and state, and criminal justice.
In addition to the unfairness of this caricature, talk radio remains a highly influential segment of media, reaching millions of listeners daily, clearly helping to shape conservative ideology as well as the Republican Party platform.
