Sentence examples for past set from inspiring English sources

Attempts at overhauling Egypt's vast subsidies to energy prices have in the past set off riots.

To see a fox or badger flash past set my body afire.

I want to hear the memories," a woman's voice says, eerily -- the table's past set free.

The local architect Antonio Obrador - who did the seaside retreats of, among others, Claudia Schiffer and Michael Douglas - let the structure's past set the design tone.

The United Nations has in the past set up trust funds for aiding war-ravaged countries that have not yet set up governments.

The first act bobs and weaves between the reality in Lulu's jaundiced motel room and the distortions of her past set against a Westinghouse fridge.

As you listen to Ugandan politicians and preachers rant against homosexuality in the documentary "Call Me Kuchu," a chilling sense of reliving the past sets in.

The aim is to guide an itinerant tribe between portals as they attempt to rediscover their forgotten past, setting up villages around towering totems along the way.

In the past, setting up a full-featured Webcam to monitor your home (or your kids and pets) remotely was too confounding for the average user, what with the tweaks needed to network and router settings.

There is also the chance that Iran, which says its nuclear program is for peaceful uses, will figure out ways around the international crackdown, as it has done with past sets of sanctions.

But Mr. Gewirtz's essay, about Twain's disillusionment with the idea of progress, his growing skepticism about human possibility and his difficulty in coming to terms with his own past, sets a fresh critical tone in considering this author.