He is setting the pattern with the bat as well as in the field.
We set off again mid-morning, setting the pattern for the next few days.
The first mountains invariably weed out the weak, setting the pattern for the rest of the race.
In her teens she high-tailed it to Berlin, where she worked as a chorus girl and lived off the kindness or perversity of various men and women, setting the pattern for a picaresque, pickup life.
That first summer the families had dinner together nearly every night, setting the pattern for the years to follow at what they called Camp East Bay, for the street they all live on.
"The relative performance of the first film will be very critical for setting the pattern for the rest of the trilogy," said Jill S. Krutick, an entertainment analyst for Salomon Smith Barney.
Jones 10-8 Round 2 Jones throws more punches and lands a long, heavy right, but Calzaghe replies with flurries that drive him to the ropes, setting the pattern for the remainder of the fight.
Formed during wartime, the company immediately took on the manufacture of new diversified products, providing helium, ferrozirconium, and activated carbon for the U.S. military, thus setting the pattern for the company's future development.
