Example Sentences

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With features like this, it’s not uncommon to see companies hedge on timelines, lest they make like Douglas Adams and watch self-set deadlines whoosh by.

From The Verge • Jan. 5, 2022

But it could be months before counties meet those self-set benchmarks.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2021

Tuesday’s announcement marked the meeting of a self-set deadline that once seemed far out of reach.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2021

Their lawyer, Rhoda Verheyen, said her clients want judges to decide whether the government’s self-set emissions reduction targets for 2020 constitute a binding pledge.

From Washington Times • Oct. 31, 2019

This resentment, however, might have been not, indeed, neutralized, but somewhat mitigated, if the temper and spirit in which the Duumvirate discharged its self-set functions had been free from hauteur and softened by modesty.

From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph