The way they handle the pressure will shape both the playoffs.

The clear, though unstated, implication is that political pressure, not air quality needs, shaped the new plan.

As Heinrich's pressures had shaped Wally; and, failing to shape Ett, had instead made him a lifetime opponent of all such forces.

For many animals the ability to move is essential to survival and, as a result, selective pressures have shaped the locomotion methods and mechanisms employed by moving organisms.

What pressures shaped her?

More than 20 years of work on the frog has shown that adaptive pressure alone did not shape it, he said.

Similarly, the evolutionary pressures of unexpected food shortages have shaped humans and all other warm blooded animals to take advantage of food when it is present.

Analysis of Pinaceae cones reveals how selective pressure has shaped the evolution of variable cone size and function throughout the family.

The city's lawyers have suggested that pressures from Borough Park leaders or social ties from synagogues were shaping the testimony.

But quite new pressures shaped the unhappy youth of Harold Macmillan at Eton and Balliol.