For one, even before you look at the attitude change at the federal government level, states have set their own course.
As Xi and his colleagues in the politburo's standing committee have moved to consolidate their power and set their course, it has become clear that his "comprehensive deepening" of reform will be implemented through reinvigorated party control.
One boat was to have set a course for Cheju, an island belonging to South Korea, where Chinese fishing boats frequently drop anchor without proper documentation, Mr. Shin said.
"I can't rule out that individual captains, without informing us, may have set a course closer to land.
Some American campuses have set up courses to help newcomers from China improve their English.Families who know from early on that they want to send their children overseas can enroll them in private courses at publicly funded schools.
And, of course, the roles played by Jeb and the Cuban exiles in ultimately delivering Florida to George W. in 2000 are often folded into the more unified narratives about how the Bushes and the Cubans together have set, for their own purposes, the course of recent American history.
Any megaplex denizen could have told Mercedes that a $200,000 sports car should have set course for, oh, the dot-com bubble of 1999.
