Sentence examples for set about the work from inspiring English sources

With that mandate, we set about the work of renewing and reinvigorating CCT.

After that, Mr. Murdoch and Mr. Thomson quickly set about the work of making the newspaper's articles shorter, its coverage broader and truncating its trademark front-page narratives.

She took up residence at Lillian Wald's Henry Street Settlement and set about the work of promoting federal legislation on hours-and-wages and child labour, as well as other reforms.

Before Pruitt can set about the work of scaling back both the EPA and Obama environmental regulations that he has called harmful to U.S. businesses, he first has to get through the Senate confirmation process.

A day after being handed power in a peaceful transition here, the leader of Afghanistan's new interim administration, Hamid Karzai, set about the work of governing today, convening a meeting of his ministers for the first time.

"Kindly the club have set about the work I proposed and they are now painting and decorating.

I set about the serious work of getting together a football team.

Figuring I'd arranged enough organized activity, I set about the serious work of aimlessly strolling around town.

The blueberries were, as promised, everywhere, and I set about the meditative work of crouching and plucking the tiny berries off the branches, one by one, until my hand was streaked with reddish-purple blueberry blood and I had gathered enough in my bag for a small pie.

The magnitude, rather than instilling worry, invigorates Jörn Weisbrodt, the artistic director of the Luminato festival, who set about resurrecting the work three years ago.

But, long before she set about that work as an elected politician, Mrs Cox had built a successful career in the charity sector fighting human suffering.