Mr. Obama will not soon get a similar opportunity to shape the trajectory of his presidency.
If we have asked for more space, it is because we have people – adults and children – who need that space to create culture, understand themselves, and shape the trajectory of their lives.
China and the US, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said, were at "a critical juncture, a time when the choices we make, big and small, will shape the trajectory of this relationship".
While other presidents have put the bully in the bully pulpit, Mr. Obama uses his megaphone, and the power that comes with it, sparingly, speaking out when he decides his voice can shape the trajectory of an issue and staying silent when he thinks it might be counterproductive.
As urban planning has sought to shape the trajectory of urban development, human geography has recorded and reported these efforts while also charting the transformations of cities that planning seeks to harness and control.
We explore how new manufacturing and accounting discourses are received by employees, and how their (more or less accommodating) responses to such initiatives shape the trajectory of their introduction.
But Turkey's apparent success failed to shape the trajectory of regional political developments.
I'm guided by wanting to shape the trajectory of yoga in this country I also call home.
His cosmic horror works helped shape the trajectory of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, while influencing everyone from Stephen King to George R. R. Martin.
And with the enormous capabilities of media to shape the trajectory of cultures all across the globe, we should shoot for the moon.
My related concern was that it would take an enormous toll on the rest of American foreign policy at the precise moment in history that the United States enjoyed a rare opportunity to shape the trajectory of international relations.
