Sentence examples for were the setting for from inspiring English sources

Hospitality banquets were the setting for negotiations between Cuzco and the annexed populations.

It is not an accident that soaps were the setting for one of Hollywood's smartest films about gender, 1982's "Tootsie".

But I have lived in the city long enough to see many other places transformed and erased, including places that were the setting for the most indelible moments of my own life.

Sculpted harlequins were the setting for Carrera marble columns inserted in a silver cuff bracelet, while miniature baroque mirrors dangled as earrings and bracelets with hard stone panels like shaded marble.

In the 1970s and 80s, countries as diverse as Nicaragua, Angola, Yemen and Indonesia were the setting for proxy wars fought between rival Soviet or Cuban-backed forces on the one hand, and western-backed, anti-communist militias on the other.

The radical journalist John Reed and his Harvard friends lived at No. 42, a site now occupied by New York University, on the already raffish southern border of the square -- a far cry from the fashionable houses that were the setting for Henry James's novel "Washington Square," remnants of which can still be seen on the northern edge of the square.

England is the setting for this story.

This is the setting for the case.

Montjuïc is the setting for the largest "rocòdrom" in Europe.

The cathedral has been the setting for numerous historic moments.

This was the set for season 1.