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  • verb Present participle of remould.

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Examples

  • Yet again, in this new orientation, it was the thumb of circumstance that pressed and prodded him, softening that which had become hard and remoulding it into fairer form.

    The Love-Master 2010

  • For the Guardian, Randeep Ramesh profiles Ronnie Screwvala, "has become the most sought after movie producer in Indian cinema with his UTV studio remoulding Bollywood in Hollywood's image."

    GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 5/15. 2007

  • More generally, the influence of clerics drawn from the Irish Church, whose sway in north Britain was restored and extended by the mac Alpin dynasty, must surely have played an important part in the cultural remoulding of the country.

    'The Invention of Scotland: History and Myth' 2008

  • We think of the founders of the league, whose critical contribution to remoulding the movement in the late-1940s laid the basis for the development of the ANC into a mass movement.

    Address by ANC Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe to the 64th Anniversary of the ANC Youth League 2008

  • Such reviews were neither rare nor original in their remoulding of "mechanical" as a derogatory epithet to describe a genre that deployed a recognizable collection of supernatural tropes.

    Haunted Britain in the 1970s 2005

  • The visit was part of a programme aimed at remoulding former symbols of apartheid repression into heritage sites for education purposes, so that SA would, in former President Nelson Mandela's words, "never, never and never again" witness such oppression.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • Any dictatorship can and will incorporate all sorts of political ideas and rhetorics, borrowing much of it from pre-existing currents of thought, left wing, right wing, nationalist, corporativist, etc., remoulding them to their own agenda, and basically doing anything it can to achieve and maintain authoritarian power.

    Can conservatives and libertarians be feminists? 2005

  • But this should not obscure the fact that many of the elements which have made Hydro such a great organization and a primary engine of the Ontario economy in the past give it a unique capacity to make a major contribution to the indispensable task we now face of revitalizing and remoulding our economy.

    Re-Energizing Ontario 1993

  • An efficient Farmer combines weeding and remoulding and even fertilizer application.

    6.1 General recommendations 1995

  • HARARE Jan 25 Sapa The remoulding of the South African Defence Force for a democratic South Africa will be discussed at a conference of military specialists and politicians in Harare this week.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

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