setting forth

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If there were a paper published in a peer-reviewed journal setting forth evidence for a lab leak, it would be prominently cited in every news article about the origins debate.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2025

The President’s office, immediately following Cardenas’ unannounced and unexpected broadcast, said the government would proceed to issue a decree, setting forth the terms for nationalization of the industry and new bases for its operation.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 29, 2024

As Garland said in the July 21, 2021, memorandum setting forth the rules for his department, the intent is to ensure "adherence to the long-standing department norms of independence from inappropriate influences."

From Salon • May 20, 2023

The requirement itself, though, reads as somewhat porous, requiring bill sponsors to merely submit for the record “a statement setting forth the single subject of the bill or joint resolution.”

From Slate • Jan. 9, 2023

‘But always I have let my horn cry at setting forth, and though thereafter we may walk in the shadows, I will not go forth as a thief in the night.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien