Sentence examples for set to crash from inspiring English sources

The hijackers had been set to crash into the Eiffel Tower before commandoes shot them.

Mr. Stone said it fitted his three criteria for any inflated asset set to crash: high valuations, excess returns and speculation.

At the end of the last television season it seemed as if "Roswell," the WB dramatic series about alien teenagers on the run from the government, was set to crash like the U.F.O. that allegedly stranded its protagonists on Earth.

Whereas rival technology firms such as Sony and Panasonic have warned that profits are set to crash as consumers keep their cash in their pockets, Nintendo has bucked the trend.

Brown is apparently going to take an ordinary person and set them a series of challenges - the biggest one will be to decide whether to take control of a Boeing 737 full of passengers set to crash at 500mph.

Greek 10-year bond yields also rose close to a 16-month highs of 9.6 per cent in trading yesterday, although they are still well short of the ruinous 30 per cent levels hit at the height of the crisis in 2012, the last time it looked as if Greece was set to crash out of the single currency.

My white-noise machine from Argos is set to Crashing Wave but I'm not averse to the presence of numerous and minute quanta moving very fast in unison; occasions when a light wind undulates the ears of wheat, or a hessian sack of pearl- barley seed is sliced with a pocket knife and pours.

As preproduction dragged on, many of the actors — including David Arquette, who was set to play Crash — moved on to other projects.

Ms Gillard herself said she "didn't set out to crash my head on any glass ceilings".

The experimenter watched the proceedings from across the table.In fact, the computer was set up to crash regardless, about a minute into the test.

Gillard remained defiant when sworn in as prime minister: "I'm the first woman to sit in this role but I didn't set out to crash my head against any glass ceilings".