• And so it proved when Neo set off to raise funds for his project.

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  • This might have helped when he set off to ride, saddle-sore and thunder-struck, through the inhospitable and wildly beautiful deserts of Utah and Arizona an experience which made him decide that he must return to his original impulse and become a novelist.

    ECONOMIST: The writer of westerns

  • Yorkshire sent in Rana Naved-ul-Hasan to open, but he was run out without facing a ball when Andrew Gale set off for a suicidal run to cover, hesitated, then went again.

    BBC: Durham keep Twenty20 hopes alive

  • It even pulses colorfully to the beat of music, and can be set to flash on and off when you get Twitter or Facebook notification.

    FORBES: 'Reinvented' Lightbulb Smashes Through Kickstarter Goal, Raising $270,000

  • The Shared Photo Stream feature is set to OFF when updating from iOS 6 beta 1 to a later release.

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  • The visitors were still reorganising at the back when Sinclair collected a short corner to set off an a mazy run down the left.

    BBC: Crystal Palace 5-0 Burnley

  • Carew then contrived to waste another opportunity to finish off Newcastle when he somehow failed to find the target after being set up by Agbonlahor six yards out.

    BBC: Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle

  • Golovin had a chance to round the match off when serving 5-4 up in the second set only to miss out.

    BBC: SPORT | Tennis | Molik, Baltacha crash out of DFS

  • The point is, there are (another comment on my profile picture) a lot of distractions (Facebook message going into further detail about previous text regarding laptop) to contend with when trying to set aside time for any work that requires deeper thought than snapping off email replies. (Posting new chart on I Love Charts).

    FORBES: Why Benjamin Franklin Was More Productive Than I Am

  • His eye for talent is shrewd, and when a shattered and disillusioned Phillips set off to rebuild his dreams at Baldock Town, nobody suggested at the time that he was playing beneath his level.

    BBC: Saints find faith in Phillips

  • It ensured the Blues entered half-time on level terms, but if they had hoped to use the break to collect themselves, it failed, with Everton picking up where they left off after the interval when Lars Jacobsen set Tim Cahill up to force another Cech save with a diving header.

    BBC: Chelsea 0-0 Everton

  • In October 2002, such fears suddenly bulked much larger, when Islamist terrorists, linked to al-Qaeda, set off a bomb in Bali that killed more than 200 people.

    ECONOMIST: Indonesia

  • The president said that al-Qaida had long sought to set off sectarian fighting and succeeded when a holy Shiite shrine in the city of Samara was bombed in February.

    NPR: Bush: Afghanistan, Iraq at Center of War on Terror

  • We discovered this firsthand in February, when we set off on a six week bicycle tour to explore the country.

    FORBES: Burma's Second Chance For Trade With India

  • Throughout the Chinese New Year holidays, fireworks and firecrackers are traditionally set off to ward off evil spirits when ushering in the new year.

    BBC: China media: New Year haze

  • It was harder, he said, on his eight-year-old daughter, who was forced to remove her skirt when visiting him (its studs set off a metal detector).

    ECONOMIST: Repression in Turkey

  • When the players returned to court, he promptly rounded off the set.

    BBC: SPORT | Tennis | Federer coasts to Masters Cup win

  • It can sense your location, so you can set your lights to turn on when you enter, turn off when you leave, or light your path as you walk down the hall, and so on.

    FORBES: I Love You, iPhone. Happy Valentine's Day!

  • Bruce Parker: When I began my career, I did not set off to become a CEO or a member of a board of directors, but I also did not want to limit myself to be just the internal IT person either.

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  • The Spaniards, who had Antonio Barragan sent off, had looked set to snatch victory when Sofiane Feghouli scored with 17 minutes remaining.

    CNN: Magic Messi moves in on record

  • Ollie Barkley's penalty was the only score until just before half-time when Abendanon set up an attack rounded off when David Paice stretched to score.

    BBC: England Saxons 18-3 Scotland A

  • When Mr Mack pressed him to make good on this deal, he set off a power struggle that ultimately resulted in Mr Mack's departure in 2001.

    ECONOMIST: Return of the Mack | The

  • But Evans restored Bradford's advantage when he bounced off Chris Thorman to score in the corner, and Newton set up Finnigan for his second try of the half.

    BBC: Bradford 38-12 Huddersfield

  • In the first quarter-final, Djokovic became the first player to take a set off unseeded Croatian Ancic in the tournament when he claimed the hard-fought opener on a tie-break.

    BBC: Nadal crashes to defeat in Madrid

  • London had got off to a dream start when Hammond and Andrew Wynyard combined to set up Tulsen Tollett.

    BBC: Reds take the points

  • Dortmund drew level when defender Hummels cropped up to beat Stuttgart goalkeeper Sven Ulreich on 82 minutes and looked set to have settled the match when Croatia midfielder Ivan Perisic scored after coming off the substitute's bench.

    CNN: Leaders Borussia Dortmund denied in eight-goal thriller

  • As I reported in the New York Times this weekend, this sort of bridal excess, when combined with the troubled economic climate of the past several years, seems to have set off something of a backlash.

    FORBES: My Smaller, Cheaper, Just-For-Us Wedding

  • So I helped work with local churches in the region to -- and public school officials to get state funding for dropout prevention programs, and brought together African American and Latino leaders to help set up after-school programs -- because when we help keep kids off the street, when we give them a productive way to spend their time, then graduation rates go up.

    WHITEHOUSE: Helping America Become a ��Grad Nation��

  • The Reds keeper was again his side's saviour when he punched the ball off Jerome's head as the Blues striker seemed set to get on the end of a Sebastian Larsson cross, before producing another eye-catching save.

    BBC: Birmingham 0-0 Liverpool

  • The trial before Judge Kaplan, set to begin last week, went off the rails on October 6th when the judge declared inadmissible an important (there is some debate over whether he is really crucial) government witness, Hussein Abebe, who was prepared to testify that he sold Ghailani the TNT that killed 224 people.

    FORBES: Justice, Dispensed with an Even Hand

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