He said that public mistrust could radically alter the shape of the next election.

As cities, states and nations scramble to outpace the disease, choices made or rushed through now may alter the shape of the world for decades to come.

He can not alter the shape of his skeleton in more than minor ways.

This required him to alter the shape of the instrument and as a result the quality of the sound produced by these instruments changed.

These muscles alter the shape of the tongue by: lengthening and shortening it, curling and uncurling its apex and edges, and flattening and rounding its surface.