Sentence examples for were to shape from inspiring English sources

"It was these early experiences which were to shape and influence our winner to go into public life.

At the age of 18 the strengths that were to shape her formidable career were already noticeably present.

In 1962 a group of writers who were to shape the future of African literature gathered at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.

The world's passions and conflict of the early 20th century were to shape the new nation's history, despite its physical distance from their epicentres.

In 1949, he and his older brother Chetan started their own production company, Navketan, which hired many actors and directors who were to shape Hindi cinema.

The Golden Bough may be disguised as a sombre work of science but in reality it is a vast prose poem, whose images were to shape 20th-century culture.

Our job is to shape it to our human purposes.

Your charge is to shape up the department.

It was his reaction to truffles and foie gras that was to shape his life.

It's not as easy to shape them as it is to shape plastics, for example.

Often the easiest way to drive change is to shape the environment.