His experience as a linebacker helps shape at least part of the Saints' defensive plan every week.
Is it unreasonable to think that they were all shaped, at least in a small way, by rooting for a losing baseball team?
Now it is increasingly seeking to measure that will and let it shape at least some of the party's policies.
He also points out that the number of PhD students Galbraith advised "can be counted on one hand", in contrast with Milton Friedman, the arch-monetarist from Chicago, who shaped at least 50 theses and created a Friedmanite school.
But if Dr Gil is right and there do exist languages, like Riau Indonesian, without nouns or verbs, the difficulty of conceiving just that fact points out how much grammar itself shapes at least some thoughts.
Over the capacious expanse of the novel's 500 pages, these characters come together and move apart in ways that a resident adviser might not recommend but that remind us our lives are shaped at least as much by our mistakes as by our ideals.
It signals to buyers, investors and the public how it intends to shape at least part of its next year.
How can that be done without reference to life experience and differing views shaped at least in part by that experience -- or by hearing and appreciating another's views so shaped?
In fact, the dreams, words and memories thrumming in their minds are shaped, at least in part, by their bodies -- and not just the "thinking" parts of their brains, but also their glands, organs, lymph nodes, bones, etc.
At the time, she refused to acknowledge that she'd lost the party's nomination and insisted that her next steps would be shaped, at least in part, by what her supporters -- whom she claimed were the 18 million people who voted for her in the primary whose voices should be heard -- wanted her to do.
