Sentence examples for gathered to set from inspiring English sources

A bounty of animal and plant material — "every seed, every piece of fossil wood, every scrap of bone," Dr. White said — was gathered to set the scene of the cooler, more humid woodland habitat in which these hominids had lived.

A bounty of animal and plant material -- "every seed, every piece of fossil wood, every scrap of bone," Dr. White said -- was gathered to set the scene of the cooler, more humid woodland habitat in which these hominids lived.

Ever since the summer of 2006, when 600 climate change activists gathered to set up a temporary protest camp outside Drax coal-fired power station in North Yorkshire, there has been a growing expectation about what the amorphous, leaderless group would do next.

Sally Bates, the head teacher of Wadsworth Fields primary school in Nottingham and chair of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) funding subcommittee, said such reports were becoming familiar as heads and governors gathered to set their budgets for next year.

This social work rights framework must focus on the four key international themes developed at the 2010 Joint World Conference on Social Work, when 3,000 practitioners from across the globe gathered to set an agenda to guide the future of the profession.

Day 1: Participants arrived and settled in, and we gathered to set the stage for our time together.

The market is open from 4 30 p.m. to about 10 30 p.m., and workers gather to set up shop around 3 30, stocking carts with pyramids of foods they have strung onto skewers.

A6 U.S. and Japan Are Small Givers A week before world leaders gather to set a course for combating global poverty, a United Nations report named the United States and Japan as among "the least generous donors" and said American and European trade policies were hypocritical and contributed to impoverishing African farmers.

In particular, the social activities created an opportunity for community members to gather, to set norms that oppose drug use and unprotected sex, and to foster relationships that build community social capital.

At the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, I watched 20-odd leading members of London's "cabarati" gathered last week to set The X Factor straight in a form Barlow et al would surely understand: a pointedly ironic music video.

One recent night, the Mission Street house gathered to celebrate a set of birthdays, and there in a party hat was Carla Shiver, 38.