Motown's founder, Berry Gordy, wrote in his memoir that his methods "had been shaped by the principles I learned on the Lincoln-Mercury assembly line".
Manchester United's appointment of David Moyes as their new manager signals a clear choice of direction: rather than going down the route of choosing one of the household names of world football, they have settled for a boss whose outlook on football and management was shaped by the principles of the man he succeeds.
This form of cooperation is further shaped by the principles of current aid strategies based on the 2005 Paris Declaration.
Within the EU, relations are shaped by the rule of law, with judges ready to enforce strong principles of human rights or competition policy.
The rules should be shaped by the general principle that not all potentially prejudicial information is off-limits.
Since at least the Industrial Revolution, so much of our business thinking has been shaped by the simple principle of economies of scale: When you do something many times the same way, each instance becomes cheaper.
Even as it comments on a society shaped by television, the play itself feels shaped by the guiding principles of sitcoms; for all its brooding lyricism, it often registers as a chain of disparate clever lines and of characters whose eccentricities become shtick.
According to Marcuse, the use that is made of technology is ideologically shaped by the present reality principle.
Early childhood pedagogical programs are also shaped by these principles; however, educators tend to draw on implicit knowledge when working with families.
Since its creation, its guiding principles have been shaped by the country's need to defend itself from its numerically superior neighbours.
3) understands these rights of liberty and political participation as an abstract system of basic rights generated by reflection on the nature of discursive legitimation (articulated in the D-Principle) in contexts shaped by the functional demands on modern law (or the "form" of positive law).
