The phrase "associates set up" is not correct in standard written English as it lacks clarity and context.
It could be used in a context where you are referring to the arrangement or organization of associates, but it needs additional information to be meaningful.
Example: "The associates set up a meeting to discuss the project timeline."
Alternatives: "associates arrangement" or "associates organization".
Mr. North and several business associates set up an arms pipeline that operated until a plane was shot down in Nicaragua in October 1986.
Ginsberg, the national counsel to the Bush campaign, and his associates set up seven teams of lawyers to address the sprawling controversies generated by the recount, and Cruz was the only lawyer who served on all seven.
The corporate records reviewed by The Times, however, show that Mr. Che, his relatives and longtime business associates set up a complex web of companies that effectively gave him and the others control of Dinghe Venture Capital, which made the investments in Ping An and Haitong Securities.
Leverage your law firm, friends, Associates, – set up meetings over the phone and face to face not email.
In defiance of this monopoly, Berlusconi and his business associates set up other local TV broadcasting stations, then despatched motorcycle riders flying down the motorways to all Italy's main cities, with tapes of his newscasts, which ran consecutively.
Britten and his associates set up the English Opera Group; the librettist Eric Crozier and the designer John Piper joined Britten as artistic directors.
Meanwhile, commissioners are appointed by the President, while SeaWorld is owned by the powerful venture capital firm The Blackstone Group, whose CEO, Stephen Schwarzman, is a big Romney backer and Bain Capital business associate, setting up an unusual election-year showdown.
But academies' defining set-up, whereby a few close associates can set up a trust to run groups of schools, subject to remote, politicised and over-worked regulation from Whitehall, bakes in risk.
— KATE TAYLOR Mr. Liu claimed that a federal investigation into his campaign fund-raising that resulted in the convictions of two associates was "set up" by powerful interests who wanted to derail his campaign.
In this case, prosecutors alleged that there was evidence to indicate that Walker and his team of advisers and associates had set up a coordinated effort with lobbyists and major donors to swing elections by secretly pouring huge amounts of corporate cash into the races.
Seth Avecilla, a fabrication associate, and Madeleine Gallagher, a media associate, both set up the electronic production lab for the sound installations.
