Sentence examples for it set for from inspiring English sources

A hostile scenario could follow once BHP receives endorsement of its bid from 50% Rio shareholders, the relatively low floor it set for its offer.

The Ohio Democrat asked whether the agency met a broad "standard that it set for itself".

But it would be a sad reflection of shrivelled ambitions if that were the only standard it set for itself.

He does not bake the pie further, but lets it set for about two hours before serving.

The evidence shows the strategy to have comprehensively failed against all the key measures it set for itself.

But the campaign is struggling to meet ambitious fund-raising goals it set for the campaign and the party.

Congress seems in a mood to break out of the spending limits it set for itself earlier this year.

DaimlerChrysler has abandoned detailed discussion of the cost-saving targets it set for the new company, even though investors remain intensely interested.

Through the 1990s and early 2000s, Congress progressively raised targets it set for the GSEs to securitise loans coming from low-income neighbourhoods.

Another, who had just broken his shoulder, refused to have it set for fear he'd be too late to be counted.

The goal that it set for the next two years was not a democratic Iraq but "sustainable security," with Iraqis in the lead.