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How to use the word set-up in a Sentence? Page #17

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The group recognised the need to weigh potential alternatives and will implement a step-by-step replacement and upgrade of its IT set-up.

Deutsche Post

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We hope the State Council's April decision ... will allow qualified foreign electronic payments firms to set up bank clearing operations in the near future - even as we are receiving reports that Chinese regulators may award new licences only to those foreign companies that partner with domestic companies.

Jeremie Waterman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We believe he was set up and that there are more people involved in this.

Sean Hanover

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We’re set up to monitor her going forward— as long as it takes.

Joseph McCain

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Singapore was a very good lesson, we had the cars set up wrong for the conditions there. It was very odd. The circuit is very slippery there and we never got the tires to work properly. This was the mistake.

Niki Lauda

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I voted for Obama, I made donations, I had phone banks, I set up at condominiums and (sent) thousands of emails, by the third year, I realized I made a humongous mistake.

Arthur Barr

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This committee was set up, as they have admitted, for the purpose of making a partisan political issue out of the deaths of four Americans, i would never have done that.

Hillary Clinton

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This committee was set up for one sole purpose, to find the truth on behalf of families for four dead Americans, now, I did not imply in any way that that work is political, of course it is not. Look at the way they have carried themselves out.

Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Our terminals business have all deployed their hurricane plan and set up their incident command structures as we continue to monitor the storm's projected path and movement.

Kinder Morgan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When I started the project I had always felt as if I had nothing in common with the people in the photographs, but now, it's apparent that we share many traits -- from physical features, how we set up our homes, to small bits of humor.

Artist Leah Miriam Cooper

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There was a demand by the lenders to privatise (ADMIE), our counter proposal is to set up a separate (entity) from PPC grid operator, one that is state-controlled.

Greek Energy Minister Panos Skourletis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This pope is like the biggest rock star in the universe; that's how this city is set up right now.

Nana Goldberg

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

?You don't set up huge ground organization until you have your message together and are doing well in the polls. Look at what happened to (Scott) Walker.

Steffen Schmidt

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The investigation on Sri Lanka was not carried out by an independent Commission of Inquiry, but for the very first time, by the OHCHR (Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights), neither the OHCHR nor the UNHRC has the authority to set up an international war crimes tribunal. The only body with the authority to do so is the UN Security Council where the veto power of China and Russia will be a factor to contend with.

Mahinda Rajapaksa

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There was some nervousness about what might happen to the house, but through an order of Gen. Winfield Scott, who was a Union general, it was really set up as neutral ground. So, effectively, any soldiers that visited Mount Vernon, Confederate or Union soldiers, came out of uniform, with absolutely no flags or anything like that, because it was thought to be totally nonpartisan.

Curt Viebranz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think everyone in fashion can acknowledge that the current fashion show set up isn't sustainable, or conducive to creativity journalists and buyers now spend practically their whole year trekking around the world what with the rise of cruise/resort shows.

Lou Stoppard

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When our team and most importantly when the president determines that it would advance our interests to have a conversation with President Putin, then he'll pick up the phone and try to set up that call.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You're seeing hedge funds set up financing desks equivalent to a PB (prime brokerage) house so that they understand how we evaluate the clients, so they can help optimise their activity, because every prime has a slightly different sweetspot across markets.

The Europe prime brokerage chief

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You're seeing hedge funds set up financing desks equivalent to a PB (prime brokerage) house so that they understand how we evaluate the clients, so they can help optimize their activity, because every prime has a slightly different sweetspot across markets.

The Europe prime brokerage chief

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The companies can monitor the distance driven and set up an early appointment with a garage if parts are suffering from wear and tear.

Rolf Bulander

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The problem with people is that they see the problem before the solution, set up in failures more than the successes and live longer past than the present.

L.F. Magister

added by L.F. Magister
8 years ago

If we want to achieve global climate targets then the U.S. has to take a key role and Obama is doing that now with the Clean Energy initiative that he has set up.

Michael Lewis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I am certain that the account in question is not mine, this account was clearly set up by someone else without my knowledge and I first learned about the account in question from the media.

Beau Biden

Found on CNN
8 years ago

As a transgender man myself, I see a lot of show runners coming to me and asking about any transgender actors I know of, that's how it's been - a loose network of transgender people who have these databases of friends and acquaintances. Otherwise the casting system is just not set up to search for them.

Nick Adams

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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