The phrase 'set up the world' is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to prepare something to be used, established, or organized. For example, you could say, "The government has set up a program to help struggling families make ends meet."
The idea was to set up the world of the film, small-town Texas, seemingly quite sleepy.
The United States set up the world trading system after World War II, and has a huge amount to lose if it fails.
Already 58 countries have formally signed the treaty, indicating that they intend to ratify in due course.If the court is set up, the world community will be taking another big step into uncharted territory.
"Before Putumayo came along, world music was dry, field recordings," said Mr. Fleming, who previously helped set up the world music department at the Virgin Megastore in Times Square.
When the world's governments first set up the World Food Security pledge in 1996 with a vow to cut the number of people suffering from hunger in half, there were 788 million hungry people in the world.
When exhausted trade ministers concluded the talks in Marrakesh 10 years ago last week which set up the World Trade Organisation, they can scarcely have imagined that their successors would be facing a new set of negotiations poised to run for even longer than the seven-and-a-half years it took to conclude the Uruguay round.
One would think that the most important part of setting up the world's first talking-chimp demonstration is making sure that the P.A. is working, but... O.K.
Emma Short, a British psychologist who is setting up the world's first outfit dedicated to researching cyber-stalking, says that few victims think the police can help them and many do not report the crime.
In movies, the concentration camps have been dramatized so often that further representation of them threatens to become kitsch, but Schlöndorff, working in brief strokes, rapidly sets up the world of labor, brutality, and death without resorting to cliché.
By setting up the world of the gnomes as the alternative reality to the world of the Ayorthaians, Levine should be able to let her heroine redefine what beauty means to her while realistically facing the hurtful gaze of others.
Andrew Wood of The Plain Dealer had mixed feelings for the episode, stating the episode did a good job of setting up the world of Pokémon, and that it was faithful to the game.
