You'll see how pandemics, medical breakthroughs, wars and social change have shaped, and continue to shape, the population of England and Wales.

The war shaped his religious outlook and he turned to prayer during the heat of battle.

Braudy knows that war and masculinity have shaped - and often undermined - each other in a multitude of ways.

Two major wars shaped its future.

That war shaped your thinking, one way or the other.

Jeremy Bowen, Six Days - How the 1967 war shaped the Middle East (2003).

Four heroic wars shaped its first quarter-century.

For 40-odd years the cold war shaped American life.

Just 14 percent said the war in Iraq had shaped their final decision, even though 75 percent said they opposed the war.

Two major wars shaped the Classical Greek world.