Sentences with phrase «shaped by past»

Many traders do not realise how much your AUD / USD and forex outlook of today is shaped by past events.

The characters whose identities are inexorably shaped by the past express Wong's nostalgia for an era passed.

We do not know in advance exactly what will happen next, yet we know that our lives, although shaped by past influences, move toward a future.

They may include the possibility of being passively shaped by the past, but they must include also the possibility not to be simply the outcome of the efficient causality of the past.

It is a continuously developing organism, so the history of the church — indeed of any religion — is a story of continuity and change and the church today has been shaped by the past.

Not exact matches

By gently pulling the tube in different directions, the operator is able to manipulate the robot's shape making it easy to navigate past small obstacles.

Over the past 12 months, prices have increased 19 % on steel mill products, 17 % on copper and brass mill shapes, 7.6 % on gypsum products like wallboard and plaster, and 7.3 % on lumber and plywood, according to data released last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

He's said in the past that the company is in better shape this year than it was in the 2016 U.S. presidential election when Facebook said to be used by Moscow to sow discord among Americans.

Canada's past has been shaped by various waves of immigrants coming from the Asia Pacific region.

Investment flows out of Japan have been an important factor shaping world financial markets over the past couple of years, not only because of overseas investment by Japanese residents, but also because non-residents have taken advantage of cheap Japanese money to fund positions in other markets.

Modernity is shaped by its deliberate rejection of the past, and modernity itself is our past.

Roszak, in his book Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Post-Industrial Society, argues that the mindscape» by which our culture has been shaped over the past three centuries is a false and limited one.

Much of what characterizes present consciousness is shaped by effects of the past in the present that are not conscious.

If my feelings are shaped by empathy for others, then I receive their feelings into my experience on the same basis that I relate to my own past.

I have a past, by which I have been shaped.

For the past 400 years church music has been shaped by the organ.

In the past it was identity - shaping in the sense that Methodists just sang songs by John Wesley and maybe two or three others, while the Presbyterians (in my country at least) would sing only the Psalms, and the Baptists would sing something more lively.

Man was created to be a physical creature (dust of the earth), and an historical creature (shaped by human history, past and present).

If what justifies one's life and shows that it is indeed worth living is surviving a set of horrendous events, then everything that happens later and everything one does later must be interpreted and shaped by reference to those past events.

This allows, in turn, the composition of the subjective aim of the concrescing occasion at its own self - actualization being determined finally by its own modification or shaping of the various possibilities granted it through the aims at fulfillment for it of all the actual occasions in its past (CNT 96).

We must emphasize once again that what we are calling critical consciousness is shaped primarily by what it can clearly determine to have happened in the past.

In spite of the profound ways in which we are shaped by our environments, which, as we have seen includes the entire past, nevertheless, the human self is not totally determined.

The connection between freedom and time (and between them and selfhood or personal identity) appears clearly in Sartre's insistence that the good novel present a self shaping an open future, not a puppet ruled by the past whose end is contained in his beginning: «But in order for the duration of my impatience and ignorance to be caught and then moulded and finally presented to me as the flesh of these creatures of invention, the novelist must know how to draw it into the trap, how to hollow out in his book, by means of signs at his disposal, a time resembling my own, one in which the future does not exist.

The road winds down through the camp's shooting range, past an old Patton tank (used by Iraqis in 1948) and other recognizable targets, such as metal figures cut in the shape of 1920s - era soldiers.

Our basic a) Rock v. b) Black Music v. c) Country divide is not good for us, and it is below my pay grade to know if mainstream pop is now shaped by American Idol Principles in a way significant enough to help us see past that divide.

Or to what extent has Christian African American political thought in the past half - century been shaped by a desire simply to be full - fledged participants in American culture and to what extent has it been shaped by a separatist impulse?

In each moment's aesthetic «enjoyment» and «remembering» of the past it is also shaped by an influx of novelty from the transcending field of possibilities.

But it experiences its past (conformally or non-conformally) only in a manner shaped by its sensitivity to the new.

Over the past two centuries, Old Testament theology has been shaped by two countervailing forces: since the Reformation, the church has been reluctant to free the Bible from its doctrinal interpretations; but since the Enlightenment, the history - of - religions approach that prevails in the academy has refused to be limited by the constraints of faith.

(By attending to the characteristics of just one phase, and generalizing it, one can get a logical empiricism based on science, an existentialism based on present decision - making, or a pragmatism based on past and present as tools for shaping the future.)

While the people of God are not to be bemused by the «things of old,» their capacity to discern the real in the present moment must derive from a profound understanding of how God's action and the people's response have interacted to shape the past.

In the past week, several sources have reported that Ball looked out of shape during his workout with the Lakers, with some speculating that Ball has been surpassed by Josh Jackson and De'Aaron Fox on LA's big board.

The society has seen fit to preserve, in framed photographs and monographs, certain events in the past of Woodson County — such as the birth of Buster Keaton in 1895 and the visit of President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1879 and the arrival in the county of Thurlow Lieurance, the composer of the song Falling Leaves, in 1885 and, most impressive of all perhaps, the sighting on the night of April 19, 1897 by Captain Alexander Hamilton of a brightly lighted, reddish airship with a cigar - shaped cabin 300 feet long.

Gerrard isn't as young and exuberant as he used to be, seemingly no longer capable of taking any match by the scruff of the neck, Jamie Carragher's not as young as he used to be and his performances over the past twelve months and been proof of this, while Fernando Torres has been cutting the shape of an uninterested and forlorn figure up front all season long.

The legal system is shaped by those that «had» in the past, and have the purchasing power to keep buying the laws to stay in their favor and prevent anyone else from replacing them.

Ruth Lawrence, the American Academy of Pediatrics» breastfeeding committee's past chair, says formula companies» influence has shaped U.S. policy in a variety of ways, for example by inhibiting U.S. hospitals from joining UNICEF's Baby - Friendly Initiative, which requires hospitals to promote breastfeeding and refuse promotional handouts from formula makers.

First, the British Labour Party has, for much of its history, been shaped by its understanding and remembrance of the past.

«I can tell you that in private meetings with the speaker, the Senate majority leader and the governor, our past efforts to maintain a personal and supportive relationship was critical in shaping the outcome» of legislation,» wrote Spinola, in a portion of a memo that was obtained by the New York Times.

Over the past two decades, in fact, the PRC has played an increasingly pivotal role in shaping the climate change regime, on the one hand by influencing the global negotiating strategy and discourse, and, on the other, by building large coalitions in support of its views.

One state party chairman who talked with Priebus over the past week said he was convinced the chairman wanted to come back, and that he was motivated by a desire to prove that the RNC has never been in better shape than during his tenure — despite polls suggesting his party's nominee, Donald Trump, is headed for a crushing loss in November.

The Red Planet's past was shaped by supervolcanoes akin to the one that sculpted Yellowstone National Park

In short order the rovers found proof of past water on the planet, including minerals that can form only in the presence of water, and ripple patterns in fine - grained rocks shaped by sea currents.

Dr Deeming added: «From a biological perspective, it is self - evident that different egg shapes by birds, both past and present, might be associated with different nesting behaviours or incubation methods.

In the past few decades we have learned about the soccer - ball - shaped spheres called buckyballs, soon followed by the microscopic rolls of chicken wire we know as carbon nanotubes.

Human cognition is more than a legacy of our Paleolithic past Evolutionary psychology has typically tried to identify the piece parts of human cognition shaped by the rigors of natural selection.

«Facing a future shaped by sea - ice - free summers and a melting Greenland Ice Sheet, such transitions represent highly relevant past analogues,» says van der Bilt.

Messenger's new maps fill in most of the gaps and show that about 40 percent of the landscape has been shaped by volcanism, indicating widespread geologic activity in Mercury's past.

The hockey stick - shape temperature plot that shows modern climate considerably warmer than past climate has been verified by many scientists using different methodologies (PCA, CPS, EIV, isotopic analysis, & direct T measurements).

Over the past 19 years, Malin Space Science Systems has featured other heart - shaped martian landforms on Valentine's Day in images acquired by MRO CTX and the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC).

Ruminating over the accumulated contents of the mind, including both acquired skills and inherent tendencies passed on by prior generations, we use mental shortcuts, allowing the past to shape the future.