Example sentences of "set the agenda " in BNC.
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| 1 | Studies by McLeod , Becker , and Byrnes ( 1974 ) and Iyengar and Kinder ( 1987 ) , for example , suggest that the media set the agenda for only a part of their audience : those highly reliant on a particular news source , those low in political involvement and information , and those who are relatively inattentive to the news generally — in short , those who are marginal to politics . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's your programme , just the way you want it , ’ and ‘ the programme in which you set the agenda , ’ said the announcer . |
| 3 | The objective was not outright dominance , it was posturing for who would head the table and set the agenda at the peace conference . |
| 4 | This then set the agenda for how we study the brain ; we treat it as a large reflex arc and trace the circuit from the stimulus ‘ analysers ’ to the motor system . |
| 5 | For example , in the web of agencies which surround the US presidency and make key foreign and defence policy decisions , Domhoff ( 1970 , 1978b ) claims to detect clear evidence of capitalist control over both popular and elite opinion-making agencies , which set the agenda for policy-making . |
| 6 | Psychologists have observed that in a group composed of men and women , the men usually set the agenda , choose topics for discussion , and tend to answer most of the questions posed during the group discussions . |
| 7 | On the other hand , if theorists adopt a particular conception , then they should look at the way that contemporary social representations have developed their particular qualities through argument and how , in turn , these representations set the agenda for further argumentation . |
| 8 | Lukacs 's adumbration of the problems facing the socialist realist writer , his examination of three tendencies within realism — bourgeois critical realism , socialist realism as a theoretical potentiality , and socialist realism as a Stalinist corruption ( socialist naturalism ) — set the agenda for an analysis of Nizan 's work . |
| 9 | At an earlier meeting , in Turnberry ( Scotland ) on June 7-8 , the North Atlantic Council ( of NATO Foreign Ministers ) had announced outline proposals for improving co-operation with the Warsaw Pact and set the agenda for the forthcoming summit . |
| 10 | UNESCO-sponsored research , particularly associated with the International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems , led to the publication of Many Voices , One World ( MacBride Commission , 1980 ) , which set the agenda for the 1980s and provided a spur to the creation of World Communications Year ( 1983 ) , continuing World Conferences on Strategies and Policies for Informatics , and other initiatives . |
| 11 | There is much still to discover , but Cable has laid the groundwork and set the agenda for future work in this developing field . |