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The expected indictment sets up an opportunity for Democrats to knock off the only Republican now representing New York City.

“Marriage,” says the photographer sent by the magazine making small talk while he sets up for the shoot.

Usually, for a two-termer, the first term merely sets up conditions for (hoped-for) second-term successes.

This sets up the remarkable encounter at the end of the episode.

One group of entrepreneurs sets up a Web-based pet-supply company, and 20 others jump on the bandwagon.

Antiochus commands the law to be abolished, sets up an idol in the temple, and persecutes the faithful.

A stimulus sets up a brief neural volley lasting about a hundredth of a second.

On Monday, this city sets up shop in a Des Moines suburb to give two exhibitions.

James Franklin sets up a printing press in Newport after having failed to establish a newspaper in Boston.

Racial oppression cannot be evaded by mere conformity; hence the emigration it sets up is apt to be representative.