Here the whole tone was set from the beginning and the Americans responded very well - and was one of the reasons why they went on to win".
The tone of the media's reaction was set from the beginning by the Post's own tin-eared treatment of this huge story: relegating it, like any other juicy tidbit of inside-the-beltway media gossip, to the section of the newspaper and its website that focuses on entertainment, gossip, cultural and personality-driven news, instead of the front page.
The tone of the bidding was set from the beginning, with dealers and individual buyers competing over the internet and by telephone for a simple home-made table, with red painted legs and pink top, typical of the individual touches Barrett added to his furniture.
The calibration period was set from the beginning of May until the end of September, including a 'model wind up' period of 1 month, covering the moist conditions after the snow melt as well as droughts during the summer months.
Not that legal should check every post (that would defeat a blog's purpose), but there should be parameters set from the beginning.
The tension is set up from the beginning: children born out of wedlock, of course, are not really the Catholic Church's thing.
And so the mystery is set up from the beginning: is Tess actually dead?
The movie charts no moral shift in Chigurh, or indeed in the men around him; all of them are set in stone from the beginning (Sheriff Bell appears to be made from stone), and we gradually realize that "No Country for Old Men" is not telling a tale — the plot remains open-ended — but reinforcing the legend of a place, like a poem adding to an oral tradition.
Weeks before the snow guns at the Arizona Snowbowl ski area are set to begin blowing artificial snow made from sewage effluent — a focus of a 10-year legal battle — the Hopi tribe has mounted a new challenge, arguing that the plan could jeopardize the survival of a fragile plant.
WASHINGTON ― Senate confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks are set to begin just hours from now.
