His future political views were directly shaped by what he saw and experienced at the time.

The meat should be shaped directly when it comes from the meat grinder, and it must be seared well so that it is crisp on both sides and moist in the center.

It has been argued that "Finnegans Wake, much more so than Ulysses, was very much directly shaped by the tangled history of its serial publication."

The Academy's geographic location and geologic formations have directly shaped its history.

This was the first time the farm bill was shaped directly by senators from outside the major farm states.

Friedman's childhood was shaped directly by international conflict.

"And unless my navigation has gone all to hell there should be an island shaped like a shark directly under us as we cross."

Researchers in the area of communication studies and political science have found that American understanding of the war on terror is directly shaped by how the mainstream news media reports events associated with the war on terror.

With custom publishing, "content can be shaped directly by the advertiser," said David Wilkofsky, the managing partner of Wilkofsky Gruen Associates, a consulting firm.