Sentence examples for for setting down from inspiring English sources

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My own reasons for writing, for setting down the story, are to a large extent selfish.

As this essay demonstrates, Achebe can be harshly critical of his fellow Nigerians; he assumes personal responsibility for "setting down beside the glories" of the Nigerian past "every inconvenient fact".

It all began when a waitress spilled a glass of buttermilk down his blue serge suit: "Mr. Volente had written an account of the catastrophe at the time and had sold it to a young and inexperienced magazine, thus making for himself the enormously important discovery that the world would pay a man for setting down a simple, legible account of his own misfortunes".

On the other hand, its semi-rigid shape makes it stand on its own quite easily and resist falling: great for setting down on the go and leaving it open for quick access to accessories.

While nutritional standards for setting down what school children should eat for school meals have been recommended e.g., [ 1], there are no studies on eating behaviour during school lunches.

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With its future secure, Van Cortlandt Village has continued its life as a tranquil preserve for those with long personal histories in the neighborhood as well as for newcomers setting down their own roots.

The great artworks are nomads, setting down for a time in the world's power centers.

The courts have, for example, set down restrictions on lawyers using race or gender to exclude potential jurors.

His former political colleague Ian Macdonald's trial for misconduct offences has been set down for 14 March 2016.

Justice Rares ordered that a hearing for the interlocutory injunction be set down for Wednesday 9 December.

"In this instance, the clubs are members of the leagues in which they play and it is for their leagues to set down requirements for the clubs," he added.

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