Sentence examples for he set before from inspiring English sources

Once a playmate of the gods, he drew down their wrath when he set before them a banquet of his son's hacked limbs.

I've stopped going to these dinners and thinking that I should acquire a taste for the delicacies he set before me.

Judged by many of the yardsticks of success he set before his first presidential race in March 2000, however, Mr. Putin has often faltered.

It satisfied a goal he set before the game when, he said, he told Greene, "Let's be the guys that put the ball on our back and make some plays".

He left little room for doubt that, despite all the changes in his life, the audacious goal he set before his first professional tournament in 1996 — to win every tournament he enters — was intact.

When Mr. Giuliani appointed Mr. Kerik as the city's 40th police commissioner last August, one of the goals he set before him was the task of repairing police-community relations.

"It's what I must do each day: create music beyond the premise set before," he has said.

Consider what a vast project of antagonism he sets before me.

The focus of the New York-based artist is the newsstand, which he sets before us like a Renaissance space box.

He sets before us T. S. Eliot living in a condition of permanent exile, Wallace Stevens in his old age dwelling poetically in Connecticut, and author/critic William Empson, whose singular career was marked by both the pleasure of the text and the delight in conceptual issues that characterizes so much of the contemporary taste for theory.

The Autobiography tells how in 1826 Mill's enthusiasm was checked by a misgiving as to the value of the ends that he had set before him.