Sentence examples for usual setup from inspiring English sources

That's the usual setup: we know that something is happening, but we don't know exactly what, and we don't know who's behind it.

The usual setup was a hierarchical one, with different "families," or syndicates, in charge of operations in many of the major cities.

Asked why he did not bring in Jorge Sosa, who was warming up, or his usual setup man, Aaron Heilman, Randolph said he was saving Heilman to close the game because Billy Wagner was unavailable.

Management was not pleased with Dierker's curt answers in his news conference following Game 1, and he was criticized for bringing in Mike Jackson to pitch the eighth inning in Game 1, rather than Octavio Dotel, who had been the usual setup man.

It was a performance about motion and invention and constant reaction, and it had more spark than the earlier half: another first-meeting duet involving Mr. Rowe, with his usual setup — guitar, radio, etc. — and this time with Michael Pisaro, who is much more invested in composition with explicit instructions but also improvises with guitar, radio and recorded sound.

Take the usual setup, but with the caveat that the default starting point is for the participant to be awarded two raffle tickets for every correct response, while the other participant gets zero tickets.

The New York startup has also been branching out in some interesting ways, including the recent launch of a Manhattan-based studio designed to give podcasters access to far better equipment than the usual Skype setup.

What I remembered loving so strongly as a child was that, unlike the usual archetype setups, we may have identified with one of these characters over the other but with the books switching off narrators every volume, each gave a loving yet utterly honest view of every other girl.

The usual experimental setups deal with thousands of atoms  [1], so the quantum dynamics can be numerically simulated only using various approximations.

Time after time you must put your entire faith in Trico's intelligence and ability, a direct inversion of the usual video game setup that casts the player as the omni-competent protagonist.

The sensors were configured to have cardioid directivity characteristics to reflect a usual close-miking setup.