All this powerfully shapes "Palais-Royal," which is dedicated to Michel Foucault.

Each system contains roles, norms and rules that can powerfully shape development.

And Microsoft's contracts powerfully shape the nature of competition and consumer choice in the industry because its Windows operating system is a monopoly, controlling the basic operations of about 90 percent of all PC's sold.

Mr. Krens has proved his knack for space and passion for the forms that most powerfully shape it.

Not long after he was finally released in early 1973, Stockdale said he had no intention of becoming a professional ex-P.O.W., yet his 2,714 days in captivity powerfully shaped the rest of his life.

He showed instead how American music powerfully shaped the evolution of Europe's art form.

While, in a significant sense, they are less segregated than poor blacks, race still powerfully shapes their residential options.

For the selection of a life style, whether consciously done or not, powerfully shapes the individual's future.

The central premise of the book is that culture powerfully shapes economic and social outcomes, and the dramatic cultural transformation that the United States experienced during the 1960s unintentionally created a vast underclass whose societal maladies are still with us.