That makes it a perfect tone-setter for the immense, thematically arranged outpouring that follows.
If the Giants hoped that first play would be something of a tone-setter, it really wasn't.
With the most advanced tsunami warning system in the world, Japan is a global standard setter.
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The brilliant trend-setter was Dave MacKay's free book Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air.
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That should ensure that the Saudis remain the swing producer, and thus ultimate price-setter, in the market.
Yet it is the European Commission which decides if the European Union adopts the standard-setter's new rules.
As an Industry leader and a trend-setter, Apple was famous for innovation-if you would call it so.
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It took the in-house gem-setter three to four hours a day for several days to complete the pattern.
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso was the long-time pace-setter but Heidfeld beat him by 0.132 seconds late in the afternoon.
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For better or worse there is no one around any more with Karajan's clout as maestro, businessman and jet-setter.
Iriver's sleek new P7 is the perfect on-the-go media companion for any trend-setter.
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Positioning the retailer as a fashion setter also gives Watson an excuse to move the company in new directions.
Most would agree that, even in the internet age, the Times is still the leading agenda-setter for major media.
In areas such as international trade and environmental negotiations, the Union has emerged as a leader and standard setter.
"It came totally out the blue, " the 44-year-old machine setter told BBC News.
Noor has been variously criticized for being an outsider, a jet-setter or a Western woman crusading in a conservative culture.
Stevenson, who came through a gruelling three-setter against fifth seed Jelena Dokic on Thursday, looked tired and was often caught flat-footed.
They ribbed him for his single-minded obsession with whey, a watery cheese by-product best known as a scene-setter in a nursery rhyme.
They ribbed him for his obsession with whey, a watery by-product of cheesemaking best known as a scene-setter in a nursery rhyme.
Mr Taylor set off that morning, with his red setter Lara, to check the woods on Dechmont Law for stray sheep and cattle.
At the end of the 43km bike stage both were at the front as British teammate Stuart Hayes played the role of pace setter.
Still, I wonder if being the fare-setter is the difference that allows Continental to make a profit on fare protection when Farecast apparently could not.
Rip Van Winkle, who made a disappointing seasonal reappearance at Royal Ascot, looked impressive when he charged into the lead from stablemate and pace-setter Encompassing.
Apart from its uniqueness, Concorde is seen as a pace-setter because all other attempts to design such aircraft have relied on its delta wing design.
In the latter connection, Robinson offers insights into the prospects for economic and political reform and identifies Czechoslovakia as the new "pace-setter" of East European transformation.
The 19-year-old had earlier kept her nerve to see off eighth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova in a hard-fought three-setter lasting two hours 40 minutes in blazing temperatures.
Technology has enabled them to leapfrog many other countries and become a digital trend setter because internet usage in Turkey has gone beyond a means of entertainment.
But music is more than just a mood setter for Mr. Crowe, who says the songs come "first, or quickly thereafter" as a film germinates in his mind.
China has always been the agenda setter at the summit.
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But Williams has also hit a bump or two along the way, including a tight three-setter against Anabel Medina Garrigues in Madrid (Garrigues won the second set at love).
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