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Those two competitors shaped the design of the tournament. Instead of making it just a men's tournament, we came up with this concept of having a big festival with all different kinds of events happening at the same time.

With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles.

What attracted Pete to USC was the amount of control he was allowed. He has every element of control from how the program is shaped to the kids he brings in. Everything has Pete's fingerprints on it, and in his NFL experience that was sorely lacking. That was the ultimate element for Pete.

What attracted Pete to USC was the amount of control he was allowed, ... He has every element of control from how the program is shaped to the kids he brings in. Everything has Pete's fingerprints on it, and in his NFL experience that was sorely lacking. That was the ultimate element for Pete.

To me, it wasn't 'Star Wars' that shaped me; it was more 'Mary Tyler Moore' and, nowadays, 'Louie' and 'Girls.'

We think that the issue he tried to raisehow politics was shaped to some extent by pop cultureis an important one.

We wanted an undergraduate course text based on current research; one that suited the way in which we teach our second-year designated essay course in Canadian sport history; and one that would be very readable to a general audience. We wanted to go beyond the chronicling of sports' events for the die-hard sport fan; instead, we wanted to show how sport was woven into the fabric of Canadian culture and shaped by social forces such as gender, class, and race.

Bob shaped music in deep and meaningful ways by changing how music could be produced and ultimately, how it would sound. He was a musical pioneer for the love of it, and musicians everywhere have had the opportunity to expand their own creative horizons with Bob's inventions.

Either very curved and shaped to a woman's body or cut straight from the shoulder and boxy and short.

As the final weeks of my schooling draw to a close and exams loom, I find myself reflecting on the past six years of my secondary education only to realise that many questions are still unanswered. How have I been shaped by my learning experiences? What skills have I developed that are valuable and transferable in the workplace?

Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures.

Dorado Beach's rich history provided amazing inspiration to put forward a bold menu celebrating the legacy of the people and cuisine that shaped this unique destination and to push me to share some of my own stories.

Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain level that I do owe everything to him. The way I see the world is largely changed by him.

And though people think about Lennon and McCartney as sort of the A-list of Beatles and George as filling in a spot, he was remarkable guitar player, tremendous songwriter, and he really shaped a lot of the direction of where the band went,

There's no question that since Katrina, there have been some missteps that have shaped the president's inability to get a message out. These are no one person's fault. But they happened. And now it's time to get back on the offensive.

The scale and scope of higher education in America was being shaped by the recognition that research -- the creation of knowledge --complemented teaching and training -- the diffusion of knowledge,

I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some decisions that I'm sure I wouldn't have if I didn't suffer with this affliction.

The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation

The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.

Thanks for 21 years of fun, excitement and all those great experiences. You shaped me more than anyone -- more than a friend, maybe more than a brother. You were a part of me, and you will be deeply missed.

So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.

Science is shaped by ignorance. Great questions themselves evolve, of course, because their answers spawn new and better questions in turn.

Ronnie Barker will be numbered amongst a select band of comedy greats who shaped British comedy in the 20th century.

San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from.

Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought: "If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped by people we have never met. Yes, reading history will make you a better citizen and more appreciative of the law, and of freedom, and of how the economy works or doesn't work, but it is also an immense pleasurethe way art is, or music is, or poetry is. And it's never stale."" ()

People should go see 'Premium' because it's a great story about love and the person who shaped us as the people we eventually become. There are a bunch of laughs as well as poignant thinking moments. It's a story about the human experience, and so many people can relate to it. Plus we need the money!

Oftentimes, people look at these challenges and only see those challenges. The president sees opportunities, and the history of our country shows that America always does best when we are shaping the events of the world, not being shaped by them.

Admit it, sport-utility-vehicle owners! It's shaped a little differently, but it's a station wagon! And you do not drive it across rivers! You drive it across the Wal-Mart parking lot!

Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's an assumption that modernity is a product simply of competition, markets and technology. It is not. It is also shaped equally by history and culture. China is not like the West, and it will not become like the West.

Commander in Chief. So much of our perception of the ability of women to lead is shaped by what we see on films or television.

You're watching the insurgents develop more sophisticated methods of attack, and more sophisticated IEDs. They're using shaped charges and anti-tank mines stacked together. They're using 500-pound bombs that can destroy any armored vehicle. They're using these so-called swarming attacks, firing several RPG rounds at one lightly armored vehicle.

You're sort of shaped by your environment in a way. I don't know if it affects every songwriter in the same way, but there must be something to it. If you're living in a busy city environment, you're going to write differently than if you're sitting in a Thoreau cabin by a lake somewhere.

You're sort of shaped by your environment in a way,

The way the third quarter shaped up really is really proof that the growth we had in the first half of this year is continuing well into the second half,

This is a man who was shaped and molded on the prairie and has distinguished himself . . . in some of the most difficult jobs that we've had in our government.

They're wonderful images. (The exhibit) show Africa American dance has shaped what everyone in America now knows as dance.

A lot of the pins are in areas where if you pull up, you can hit the ball close with good shaped shots. Unfortunately I didn't hit the ball very good, so I wasn't in those positions and I didn't putt well, anyway.

A lot of the older folks at my church liked it better than the crazy hairstyle I had before. So far all of my friends have said it fits. I was worried I was going to have an oddly shaped head.

There was no effort to abandon any aesthetic or embrace a new one this time around. But the songs are more 'song-y,' perhaps because they were honed out on the road. There's something about the immediacy of performing in front of an audience, as opposed to a performance in your own head...what you do can be shaped by the reaction you get from the crowd.

There must be appropriate tension between stories of real pain, loss and tragedy with those of resiliency, optimism and hope, ... It must give those of the culture a real sense of legitimacy and possibility, but also be a museum that is a lens into what it means to be an American, with a message that all of us are shaped indelibly by this African-American experience.

There's a reason for Art Garfunkel's oddly shaped hair. It hides a very big brain.

It's a perfect fit for the pharmaceutical industry. The fact they he shaped this bill adds to his cachet.

It's a nice surprise and feeling to begin with a win. Our players shaped up well and we did a good job of adapting to the conditions.

It's like we took our aggressions and shaped something positive from them in a very direct manner. Though we'd qualify most of the record as hard-driving, the two quiet ones (Parachutes and Come Back) could be our best attempts yet at pulling the disguises off of loss of life, and even love.

It shows that it was not only big cats our ancestors had to be afraid of. It was also these creatures from the air -- aerial bombardment if you will, that were stressors to our ancestors that grew and shaped and formed our behavior today.

The Bay Area is shaped by fire. We tend to forget it.

That has really shaped us more than anything else over the past year. One of the goals for this new record was to lay down more grooves than we had on Katonah and make something truly danceable. Having two drummers on stage will reinforce that element for us.

It's a mystery to me why the track doesn't already have a Nextel event. It's definitely a Nextel Cup track. It's beautiful. It's wide. It's shaped perfect. It's got the grandstand capability. They've proved they can pack them in with a lot of drama and excitement. It's just a fun place to go.

It's a much more jaded, cynical, kind of (take on the phrase). It was really shaped by what was the election last time. And the results of the election. But you know, in order to take the moral high ground, just the opinion in the song is, 'You have your opinion. I have mine. And don't get in my face about it. Have a nice day.' It's a very Jersey way of twisting the words.

I've got a district right now shaped like Indonesia, ... It makes no sense at all except from the political perspective. I really think the Democratic Party in Georgia knows they overreached on these maps. What occurred is just a corrective measure to put communities back together again.

They were very large and did extensive damage. This one appears to have been very large and shaped so that the blast went into the ship.

Not one person would admit that they didn't want me to wear a bikini because of their aesthetic preference - a preference that is shaped by our cultural perceptions of what is and isn't beautiful.

So Chevy went looking for a name to reflect the 'personal car' image being shaped in the new car.

Evolution has shaped our visual system to be good at seeing the structures we commonly encounter in nature, and culture has apparently selected our writing systems and visual signs to have these same shapes.

Their sexual knowledge, attitudes, behaviors are all shaped in part by the characters in stories that television conveys.

I liked looking at the plant cells and seeing how they're shaped and what's in it.

I had to have this purse. It was shaped like a big saddle with stirrups and everything.

In the years that I worked in museums, first as a summer student and eventually as a curator, one of the primary lessons I learned was this: History is shaped by the people who seek to preserve it. We, of the present, decide what to keep, what to put on display, what to put into storage, and what to discard.

In the 1970s, as historians became enchanted with microhistories, economists were expanding the reach of their discipline. Nations, states and cities began to plan for the future by consulting with economists whose prognostications were shaped by investment cycles rather than historical ones.

In my mind, the core issue has always been prevention. My views were shaped by my experiences with women who were managing and coping with unintended pregnancies and unwanted children.

I know Michael's fellow Marines and his family will forever cherish the memory of their comrade, son, brother, husband and father. His tremendous capacity for love shaped their lives. We will never forget him.

If you think you can recklessly buy stocks you have to be assuming more than a V-shaped recovery in earnings -- you have to be assuming a hockey-stick shaped recovery.

I think my writing was certainly shaped from having lived in a place like Niverville as well as by the family that I came from, the religion that I had, that type of thing.

Being on a team really shaped my time at Auburn. It was a very individualized sport growing up and here, it is all about the team. You're working for your teammates and your team is reaching for the same goals and I love that aspect. Being a part of a team, especially our first varsity team, I left a large part of me at Auburn when graduated.

Being honest with yourself and loved ones about your financial past and future is an early key to success. Remember that everyone has their own money style, which has been shaped by their past experiences. Approaching the issues honestly and openly gives you a much better chance at a strong, healthy financial relationship.

Christianity and Islam, they have the same morals, same lifestyle, some of the same stories that shaped them.

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.

I figured out why I'm not getting seriously rich. I write newspaper columns. Nobody ever makes newspaper columns into Major Motion Pictures starring Tom Cruise. The best you can hope for, with a newspaper column, is that people will like it enough to attach it to their refrigerators with magnets shaped like fruit.

I don't think there is ever objective biography. Our vision of our subject is always shaped by who we are. So I do, of course, think the biographer's view is always something to keep in mind.

However you define God, and whether you believe in God or not, the world we live in has been shaped by the universal human conviction that there is more to life than life itself; that there is a 'god' shaped hole at the centre of our universe.

For the best part of 100 years, movies made stories about a certain view of love, and it shaped us all, whether we like it or not. Our lessons were about how to look at people of the other sex. How you kiss, what you say. We learned a lot about love from the movies. We've matured a bit, and we can see there's a lot more to love.

The human brain of all ages is plastic, that is, it is shaped by what you do, what you learn and what you think, ... There is strong evidence that, particularly in the over-50s, the degree to which you retain your mental faculties depends on a number of simple behavioural factors.

All the basketball players in the city, the NBA guys, the coaches, everybody told me to go see Herb. He's shaped the games of so many players.

And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.

The media became not just a vehicle to get attention about an event, but a medium in itself, to be shaped and molded and instilled with my social-political agenda.

The leaders of tomorrow are shaped by the teachers of today. I am honored to be giving the keynote speech for an organization that has 50 years of experience inspiring today's early education and care providers to be innovative, thoughtful and motivating.

The kids wanted to work hard and to be a competitive program. I took their energy and built on it. I took the energy and shaped it best way I saw fit.

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.