Sentence examples for taking final shape from inspiring English sources

The 2000 presidential primary calendar is taking final shape, with at least six big states setting their votes for the middle of March or earlier in what promises to be the most compressed presidential nominating contest ever.

None of the roughly 90 players named in the Mitchell report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs will be suspended or fined in an agreement taking final shape between Major League Baseball and the players union, according to two lawyers familiar with the matter.

This means that the mortgage interest deduction, local property tax write-offs, second-home deductions and capital gains exclusions are safe for the time being — despite a far-reaching tax overhaul package taking final shape in the House.

Bakunin's anarchism took final shape as the antithesis of Marx's communism.

But most of the aid package did not take final shape until the "drug summit" meeting in January.

But in 1378 Takauji's grandson, the shogun Yoshimitsu, moved the bakufu to the Muromachi district in Kyōto, where it remained and took final shape.

"We hope that it does not become a lightning-rod issue," Thomas P. Campbell, the museum's director, said in June, as the galleries began to take final shape.

The race to succeed Juan Antonio Samaranch as president of the International Olympic Committee took final shape today when Kim Un Yong of South Korea completed the five-person field.

As the financial overhaul took final shape recently, he worked the phone from his Manhattan office and made periodic visits to Washington, trying to persuade members of Congress to make the legislation more far-reaching.

The feel of the place is unrushed, thoughtful -- reflecting the mood of an artist who could put aside a boulder for years while it took final shape in his mind's eye.

The financial overhaul bill that has taken final shape would give the government a larger role in guarding the wallets of consumers -- many of whom, it became clear in the financial crisis, did not always understand what they were signing up for.