Working solo, Olmsted set out to complete the park, which was by then chosen for fairgrounds.
Finally, Conan Doyle decided that he had to kill Sherlock Holmes, and he set out to complete the perfect murder.
In other areas, such as Afghanistan, he set out to complete Bush's agenda rather than overturn it.
Her death has left Ruth feeling empty and lost; so she has set out to complete her mother's quest.
"The Russian military aircraft involved in launching airstrikes from the Iranian Hamadan base against terrorist sites in Syria successfully accomplished the tasks they had set out to complete," Maj.
When, several decades later, in Berlin, Mommsen set out to complete his history, he abandoned the idea of writing the fourth volume, which was to contain the history of the emperors, because he felt that he would not be capable of writing it in the same brilliant style as his history of the republic.
Around 2,000 of us, starting in waves, set out to complete either one or two 5km laps whose 30 obstacles required us to wriggle through narrow tunnels awash with freezing mud, leap through a bonfire, climb walls of giant bales, slide into an icy pond, scramble up near vertical mudslides, wriggle on our faces under giant webs of heavy netting, and much else besides.
The main result of this survey was that a surprisingly high percentage of students (93 %) set out to complete their qualification.
Mr Avery, from Cold Aston in Gloucestershire, and teammates Patrick Woodhead, George Wells and South African-born Andrew Gerber - who also hold the record for the fastest surface journey across the North Pole - had set out to complete the expedition in 12 days.
After having driven 100-plus SUVs, wagons, cars and trucks over the past year, this small handful rise above the rest for being excellent at the mission their makers set out to complete.
