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Example sentences for: shaping

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When he joked in early 1994 that Federal Communications Commission chief commissioner Reed Hundt should be shot for ordering rate reductions, the idea that the dark side of the Force was shaping the digital future was hard to resist.
Johnson, a Tennessee populist who thought blacks inferior to whites, wanted to give Southern states wide latitude in shaping their own laws and governments, regardless of the consequences for the freed slaves.
In such states as Canada, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Singapore, the mixers are already key figures in the shaping of national usage.
The period after the August 1998 embassy bombings was critical in shaping U.S. policy toward Bin Ladin.
Although such deviations are small, in some cases they are indicative of evolutionary processes shaping the genomes.