Some of the most intelligent and accomplished people I know get bent-out-of-shape by the notion that they do not have near-universal appreciation.
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Their job is to prevent policies being pulled out of shape by inter- departmental tugs-of-war, or problems disappearing between the cracks at departmental boundaries.
Seizing the opportunity provided by Dr Fox's plans for decentralisation, General Sir Peter Wall, the head of the army, asked Major-General Nick Carter, a former commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan and the director-general of land warfare, to carry out a review that would shape the army of the future.
It's not only big-name celebrities that get bent out of shape.
Due to the limited number of electrodes, patients would only be able to discern light or dark, but most have reported better functionality with the device -- being able to make out the shape of a curb while walking, or discerning between light, grey or dark colored socks, for instance.
What looked like a peaceful transfer of power from Mr Yeltsin to Mr Putin turned out to have victims, in the shape of the Yeltsin-era oligarchs subsequently imprisoned or exiled.
But there are a tremendous number of people out there who feel that in some way - in some shape or form - they had less than the - far less than the ideal experience, growing up and having a parent.
Readers were quick to point out that weres can only turn into one type of animal, while shape-shifters can take any animal form.
The shape of the 2007-09 recession will turn out to have been 10 months of muddle-through, three months of a nasty micro-Depression and six more months of muddle-through.
The shape of the 2007--09 recession will turn out to have been ten months of muddling through, three months of depression and six more months of muddling through.
The toy was popular with teenagers in the late-1980s, but fell out of favour after complaints that it lost its ability to retain its shape over time, .
Mr Blair's gang has inherited an economy in fair shape, amid a non-inflationary recovery which shows few signs of running out of steam.
From the air, close to 400 villas fan out into the ocean in the shape of a giant palm tree, much like the Palm in Dubai -- a grandiose development that has been plagued with problems from its inception.
His influence behind the scenes seems to have been negative: western bankers in Moscow suspect that chummy relations between members of his court and the tycoons helped shape the worst bits of the current package, especially the bank bail-out.
To the outside eye of the biographer is added another complication: these characters are chameleons and shape-shifters, deliberately out to lose themselves.
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