Sentence examples for term for setting from inspiring English sources

Mr. Alster is serving a 20-year prison term for setting off a pipe bomb at Ms. Thomas's Brooklyn Heights home in 2001.

The word "hedge" began its life in economics as a term for setting limits on a bet, and showed up in that sense in the prologue to the Duke of Buckingham's 1671 play "The Rehearsal," a parody of the Restoration fashion for heroic moralistic drama: "Now, Critiques do your worst, that here are met; / For, like a Rook, I have hedg'd in my Bet".

Capp, originally from Scotland, had been recalled to prison for breaching his licence after being released from a jail term for setting fire to his girlfriend's flat.

Nesting is a supremely minivan-ish term for setting up your house before your baby comes, but in fact it's a nice way to think about making your apartment a comfy-cozy You-village, even if your apartment is a sad, lonesome place.

To provide a direct comparison of incidence, we used a linear risk model with a term for setting (family-based vs. institution-based); that parameter estimate is reported as a risk difference (RD) and 95% CI.

The terms for setting up a new bank should be very draconian.

Under the agreement, announced tonight by government and rebel negotiators inside guerrilla-held territory, the first terms for setting a cease-fire would be signed by April 7.

Ostensibly, the Malheur occupation was intended to show support for nearby ranchers Dwight and Stephen Hammond, who faced jail terms for setting illegal range fires (and who immediately distanced themselves from the occupation).

On the other, the economics professor accuses the Democratic party establishment and corporate interests of colluding to compromise its implementation as the city council on Monday begins to hammer out the terms for setting pay at more than double the federal minimum wage.

Mr Siniora could, in theory, appoint non-Hizbullah Shias to fill the seats, but the party's hold over the sect, which makes up 30% of Lebanon's population, is so strong that they would lack credibility.Nevertheless, Mr Siniora's rump cabinet called the bluff by swiftly approving the UN's terms for setting up the tribunal.

The government had refused to permit new human rights groups such as the ACPRA, and then sentenced their founders to lengthy prison terms for "setting up an unlicensed organisation", the report said.