Sentence examples for set to snatch from inspiring English sources

But he will have glanced north to unfolding events in Edinburgh with shuddering fear – for Alex Salmond looked set to snatch a second tartan term in commanding style.

They looked set to snatch it with the game's last play but Joel Monaghan's catch-and-pass from Lee Briers' kick was punched out of play by Jacob Miller to spark wild celebrations in the Hull end.

After more than seven years of cunningly exploiting the ceasefire that ended the Gulf war and the growing divisions in the UN Security Council Saddam Hussein looks set to snatch another military defeat from the jaws of what looked like a diplomatic victory in his battle over UN weapons inspections in Iraq.

Arsenal are also set to snatch Ajax's £10m-rated centre-back Jan Vertonghen,  24, from under Tottenham's noses.

What must really get their spirits up: Chevy is set to snatch the title away from rival and the U.S.' No. 1 carmaker, Ford Motor.

Sure enough, Aherne strode upfield to level a minute later as Kilcoo seemed set to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

The half-hour work, set to snatches of music by Henry Purcell, sees a series of characters sleepwalking in and out of a deserted cafe.

In "Supplement," set to snatches of atmospheric music by Marc Ribot, a young woman (Kacie Chang) waits in an apartmentlike enclosure suggested by projections on three panels placed about the empty stage.

This is the best place to snatch the bat up.

And the lush units of dancing in this piece, set to alternating snatches of music by Bach and Bjork, also feel isolated, like handsome but unjoined elements in a mosaic.

It is planning to sell a slice of its profitable finance business, GMAC, and has flogged at a loss its stake in a Japanese carmaker, Fuji's Subaru, to Toyota the nemesis that looks set soon to snatch its crown as the world's biggest car firm.