Sentence examples for world up for from inspiring English sources

"You set the whole world up for something and then you backed away," he said.

It was reported earlier this month that Wood Group had put the well services division, which employs almost 4,000 people around the world, up for sale.

Four years after buying Alcan for a hefty $38bn, Rio Tinto has put some $8bn worth of its aluminium assets around the world up for sale.

But let's be clear: Even if we are spared the spectacle of yet another region plunged into depression, the fact remains that the people who congratulated themselves for saving the world in 1999 were actually setting the world up for a far worse crisis, just a few years later.

Arthur Lerner-Lam, who maps disaster risks at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, agrees that urbanization in earthquake zones is setting the world up for its first true megadisaster — a million-casualty earthquake that many seismologists say is only a matter of time.

THIS week, with the future of the free world up for grabs, it is once again clear that Florida -- America's sunny Margaritaville of drifters, grifters and politically active lap-dancers -- has something of a credibility problem when it comes to the heavy lifting of democracy.

Kosman covered the private equity world up close for years as a writer and editor for Buyouts Newsletter, The Deal, and Mergermarket.com.

A huge world opened up for her.

People of the world, stand up for Tibet.

Virtually the entire New York art world showed up for it.

The one that every star in the world dresses up for.