"shaping influence" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to the impact or effect that something or someone has on shaping or molding a particular situation, idea, or outcome. Example: "The teacher's passion for literature was a shaping influence on her students, inspiring them to become avid readers and writers."
But each laureate brings their own shaping influence, and enjoys the status in the poetry world that, according to incumbent Kay Ryan, is the position's greatest benefit.
A total rejection of self has been the shaping influence of his very empty and meaningless life, but he is unaware of this.
Until recently I enjoyed the illusion that my wife and I, while we could no longer shape the course of our lives, might at least have some shaping influence over the infants in our charge.
I'm just taking Obama's cue that his father had a decisive, shaping influence on him, and saying let's take the dreams of the father and look at the actions of the son and see if the jigsaw fits.
After the sexual scandals of the Bill Clinton years and the Karl Rove hardball of the George W. Bush years, and partly because of the shaping influence of popular entertainment like "Wag the Dog," it was safe to assume that the audience for "November" would arrive eager to sneer at politicians.
And we encounter a woman whose capacity for gelid retribution exerts a dramatic shaping influence on the life she shares with Groff – so much so that the marriage as it is described by her is not just cast in a different light, but fundamentally transformed.
At mind conditioning, shaping, influencing the minds of the people, making them accept what is ordinarily not acceptable".
Yet the nation-by-nation comparisons prove irresistible, serving as fodder for arguments over appropriate educational philosophy, social justice and the shaping influences of culture, custom and class.
I found the process extremely helpful; beginning to understand how hair, skin, eye hues and body shape influence clothing colour and style choices in shirts, ties, suits etc.
From various minorities, Lan Na was formed and established a kingdom where Chiang Mai was appointed as the capital city, its shape influence by Sukhothai (Fig. 1).
Here are some basic rules for communicating to connect, shape, influence, and lead.
