Sometimes, of course, a later event shapes our assessment of whether a certain decision was right or wrong.

She felt that events would shape themselves, that the directing of them was not in her hands.

"Every so often, relatively obscure events in history have shaped its course," he said, suggesting that his plan for the company was such an event.

But we never gain any real sense of how those events shaped the woman or her politics.

Mallinson demonstrates how people and events have shaped the army's development.

Tonight's events were shaping exactly as he wanted them.

Certainly, these events shaped the way we viewed someone like Parlak back in 1991.

And that means events shape him, not the other way around.

Further events, as they developed, would shape The Shadow's plans.

After all, these events shaped the twentieth century as we know it.