1.   Also Tuesday, the Senate defeated a proposal to amend the Constitution so Congress could set spending and contribution limits on campaigns for federal office.

2.   Analysts and dealmakers alike said the announcement could set off a wave of consolidation in oil companies not unlike that seen in the financial services and telecommunications industries.

3.   Assuming that a dog will never display aggression merely because it has never done so can set you up for a rude awaking.

4.   A colleague asked Newall, a sometime jazz pianist, if he could set the multiplication tables to music because his son was having trouble with them in school.

5.   To a certain extent a balloon pilot can set a course by rising or descending into wind streams going in the desired direction.

6.   To bail out Racing would not only be extremely expensive, but could set a dangerous precedent for other imperiled clubs.