Sentence examples for set upon a course from inspiring English sources

Set upon a course of “rehabilitation,” she is forced to assume the identity of Mary Ellen Enright, a student at the local state college.

He is set upon a course of spending cuts to balance the nation's books which will be unpopular enough south of the border, but which is the very opposite of the anti-austerity message which helped carry the SNP to its landslide in Scotland.

His sons Alcathous, Atreus, and Thyestes set upon a bloody course with the murder of their stepbrother Chrysippus, the son of Pelops's union with a nymph.

As a result, she wrote, the paper had "set upon a deliberate course to destabilize Parliament" by making members of both parties look bad, with the aim of benefiting far-right groups that want Britain to pull out of the E.U.

Such killers, Mr. Ressler said, are usually devoid of hope and have set upon an irreversible course of self-destruction.

After a service at Llandaff cathedral, the Queen, dressed informally in a pink outift, told members and guests packed into the assembly's debating chamber that they had come together "in the spirit of renewal to welcome and set upon its course a new institution for the people of Wales" which "extended a bridge into the future".

Sometimes the dogs set upon a helpless child or adult.

The array is set upon a 1-mm thick backplane.

If he's set upon the latter course, perhaps the members of his board might like to have quiet word in his ear, at least if they want to avoid getting caught in the crossfire.

He also set the country upon a course that resulted in its ratification, in 1975, of the 1925 Geneva Protocol against the use of chemical and biological weapons and of a new Convention, negotiated in 1972, that broadened the Protocol to include severe strictures against BW.

Then, of course, Fox is set upon by a villain and killed.