Sentence examples for set about launching from inspiring English sources

After more than a decade as a Daily Show correspondent, Samantha Bee was handed her own show in February and swiftly set about launching weekly satirical Exocets on US news happenings.

Despite the bad blood and threats of violence from both parties, Domscheit-Berg set about launching his own whistle-blowing service that he felt would be more effective than WikiLeaks.

In 1966 the guitarist Eric Clapton and drummer Ginger Baker set about launching Cream.

David Getson, 25, had $10,000 from a senior thesis prize and the sale of his 1988 Chevy when he set about launching Icon, a bimonthly based in Manhattan.

Capitalizing on what they see as a massive regional opportunity (that is only going to get bigger), Peak will now set about launching Baloot across platforms, including Facebook and mobile, as well as using Kammelna to develop (and launch) more Arabic card, board, and table-top games.

He scored 18 goals in his first season in the Premier League and played for Spain, but former Swansea striker Michu has set about re-launching his career in much less glamorous surroundings.

A new international director, Jean-Luc Naret, set about expanding the brand, launching guides in Asia and North America.

Run by a mix of volunteers and public servants, the Mayor's Youth Office set about implementing new programs: launching a Burlington public access TV show run by kids; opening a sliding-fee scale daycare that's still running; helping the elderly with snow shoveling; and starting a newspaper run by teenagers that published stories on issues ranging from teen suicide to the school budget.

John F. Kennedy's announcement in 1961 that sending Americans to the Moon would be a national goal, Braun and others in and outside of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASAA) set about developing a launch vehicle that would enable a lunar mission based on rendezvous either in Earth or Moon orbit.

The designers of the ride wanted to simulate being fired out of a cannon and subsequently set about prototyping a launch system.

Lateefa AlWaalan, from Saudi Arabia, set about tackling this problem by launching Yatooq, the first ready-made Arabic coffee blend in the Middle East.