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Many have drawn links between the duke's manner and his experiences as a young man, suggesting his troubled family life helped shape a rather detached and unemotional outlook, while his navy career endowed him with a salty wit that frequently raises eyebrows.
In life, habits shape our character.
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Because her base is in France, and "will ever be, " Cotillard manages to balance Hollywood blockbusters with quieter French films, like the forthcoming Rust and Bone, directed by Jacques Audiard ("he sculpts life in the shape of movies") and Little White Lies, helmed by Canet.
But you know, when you are immune to criticism you cannot shape your life.
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What forms of life might have taken shape in that subterranean sea?
Her regular collaborator, Peter Callahan, who makes bite-size foods, helped on the hors d'oeuvres, which included smoothies, "relay bars, " little smoked-salmon fish with wasabi eyes and caviar on crackers in the shape of life-savers.
The most powerful quality of our country is that each day is full of a million possibilities: We are a country of fierce individualism, which invites me to shape my life as I see fit.
But even Labour now hums with rumours about the shape of political life beyond the election.
Inspired by a muscle magazine that someone left in his examination room, Life decided to get in shape.
When the goal became performance based and not image based, I started getting into the best shape of my life.
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Deciphering a composer's intent (or trying to) not only stimulates Mr. Pollini as a performer, but also helps shape his inner life.
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The economy is in bad shape, and life is made harder by the unusually heavy rains that have rendered many roads impassable and disrupted Kenya's already shaky telephone and electricity services.
And a Britain where a strong society gives everyone the chance to shape their own life, making the most of all that this amazing country, in this amazing century, has to offer.
So with Taylor approaching the fight in a bullish frame of mind and Froch in the best shape of his life, the fans that will pack into the Foxwoods Casino could be in for a real treat.
The new shape of American family life renders some existing policies obsolete and require reforms that pose new challenges for law and administration.
The family is in ragged shape and needs a new life, so Benjamin buys a dilapidated zoo in a lush bit of country somewhere outside San Diego.
Many of Japan's life-insurance companies are also in dreadful shape.
It takes a close look at the physical features and natural processes that shape the incredible plant and animal life to be found underwater as well as life-forms exposed by the tides.
That role took shape on the raw 1994 album "My Life, " produced by Sean "Puffy" Combs and recorded when Ms. Blige says she was hitting bottom.
But a new breed of life-saving robot is being developed that take their shape and movement from those limbless reptiles, and, it is hoped, will prove invaluable not only in search and rescue operations but also be a great asset to human surgery.
For Deacon, the answer has to lie in a closer look at self-organizing processes and how the origins of life and consciousness are rooted in the constraints that bind and shape these processes as they build from the simplest self-assembly of molecules up to the emergence of the first life forms.
Since we acquire these beliefs early on in life, the sooner we begin to collectively reshape our values around work, work life balance, family time, the sooner we can begin to shape the beliefs, and thus the behaviors, of the next generation.
Lay asserted that the company was in good shape, but the last few months of Enron's life turned into a free fall.
Such an advanced technology might well send explorers whose size and shape we cannot yet imagine to study and examine the diversity of life that evolved elsewhere -- and rather than exploiting us, they might value and support the natural biodiversity of the galaxy.
Maybe it was a great hank of river weed turning below in the cold current, maybe it was just the way gravity works in water, but it felt like something that matched me exactly, the same shape and weight and volume, and it always seemed as if that something came to life the moment I stepped into the water.
He spoke about how two of his great-grandfathers had moved to find a better life and how another started work at the age of 12 in a colliery - and that these events had helped shape his "social conscience".
It is, in fact, a powerful lens with which to study a society because it offers a view, not just into intimate life, but also of the bigger picture: politics and economics, religion and tradition, gender and generations that shape sexual attitudes and behaviors.
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