Sentence examples for which sets itself from inspiring English sources

There is much to relish in the notion of a novel which sets itself on a tiny island cut off from the world.

There are many ethnically distinct communities, but people of different groups also mix in many social contexts, with the exception of the Mennonite community, which sets itself apart from other groups.

I've already written about Iron Man 2 over on my Week in geek blog, where I pointed out that this is a movie which sets itself the tough task of succeeding as a standalone sequel and also setting up Marvel studios' future outings starring Captain America and Thor (as well as, eventually, the Avengers, which will unite those two with Iron Man).

And finally, a word for Peter Ho Davies's mystifyingly overlooked The Fortunes (Sceptre £16.99), which sets itself the task of bringing to life 150 years of Chinese-American life, and does so in a series of partial (and partially true) narratives that take us from the building of the railroads to a contemporary scene of international adoption.

This radical subjective nothingness is not to be confused with the relative nothingness of a "subjective consciousness" which sets itself over against, and objectifies, the world.

Sometimes they drop in twos, like these from Panasonic: a new super-zoom and a point-and-shoot, neither of which sets itself apart too much, but maybe one will have the right combination of features for you.

His 67-year-old wife, Chanda, was part of the same grouping, which set itself up in 1976 in a library-cum-commune inside a large Victorian building in Brixton, south London, with about 25 members.

On the one hand there is BSkyB, which set itself tough targets – 10m subscribers by the end 2010 – and has now hit the 9.7m mark, meaning it is almost there with 11 months to go.

An integral part of all that is a school of thought called new urbanism, a product of the 1980s, which set itself against suburban sprawl and was aimed at the creation of neighbourhoods in which walking would be the main means of transit and there had to be a recognised centre.

We most recently wrote about BlueGlass launching their DIYSEO-eque SecondStep which set itself apart from other enterprise SEO platforms by providing businesses with CopyPress, an ad hoc team of  Demand Media-like content producers in order to increase website traffic.

As the translator Martin McLaughlin notes, Calvino's constant aim was "to raise the target which literature sets itself: he challenges literature to describe the indescribable, from macrocosm to microcosm, from the Big Bang to the division of cells".