During his tenure he tried to transform the Society's interests from the early history of civilization to the current one.
"Trying to transform these big corporations, really making a fundamental change in the way they do things, is very difficult."
In the process, the president of the group is trying to transform China's government-controlled news media from within.
But he was also trying to transform the character of his race.
Her suggestion: Maybe we should stop trying to transform parents, when it is their children who still have room to change.
U2 spent most of the 1990's trying to transform itself and stay up to date.
"We spent many months trying to transform what had become a counterproductive relationship," he said.
He looked at the pen in his hand, trying to transform it into a cigarette by the power of thought.
Conservatives agree that the Democrats are trying to transform the environmental debate.
And we are trying to transform the audience into a community.