In this case, unlike that of natural selection, Darwin's thinking did not set the world alight.
Radcliffe is attempting to win for the fourth time on the London course where she set the world record in 2003.
It was the West's obsession then with appeasement that set the world on course for the cataclysm of World War II.
The Windows phone platform could certainly do with that sort of boost -- so far, sales haven't exactly set the world alight.
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It is possible, as many Apple advocates insist, that they have a secret plan and will once again set the world on fire.
This allows Google to conjure, develop, and launch new ideas that either set the world on fire, or disappear in puffs of smoke.
Rockefellers who created institutions that at the end of this generation were starting to set the world pace in a growing number of disciplines.
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In 1999, he set the world record for the highest parachute jump from a building when he jumped from the Petronas Towers in Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia.
And yet when he died in 1906, having set the world on a path to modernism, it was his paintings that led to the creation of a twentieth century icon.
Mr Godwin went on to win more than 200 time trials and was cycling an average of 200 miles a day when he set the world record.
But other than that, it's hard to point to anything that will set the world on fire in the new phone, revealed Thursday at an event in New York.
Bolt has set the World Championships alight with his displays in the Olympic Stadium, which have seen him become the first man to hold the 100 and 200m World and Olympic titles at the same time.
Comdex wouldn't be complete without the wacky element, so the USB Implementers Forum is stepping up to the port (again and again) in an attempt to set the world's record for the number of peripherals that can be hooked to a single PC.
Or if you didn't have an opportunity to speak, but you've got this burning idea that is really going to set the world on fire, I want to make sure that you've got the opportunity to -- (laughter) -- that you've got the opportunity to lay it out right now.
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"I spent my entire childhood building mechanical devices from Meccano and now we have the largest set in the world, " Mr Curtin said.
Despite losing the set, the Poles continued to look the stronger pairing and Murray had to save a break point early in the third set before the world number three was broken in the sixth game.
Mr Curtin said he had spent his entire childhood building with the toy construction material and was excited to have the "largest set in the world".
Thanks to fracking, the United States can become not energy independent of the rest of the world (oil will still a global commodity with prices set on the world market) but definitely more energy secure.
Europeans realize that the oil price is set by the world market, Dings said.
Mactier beat Dutch defending Olympic champion Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel in a time of three minutes 29.945 seconds to break the record Ulmer had set at the world championships in May.
Like the Bretton Woods conference of 1944 which set up the World Bank and the IMF, the Ditchley Park conference grappled with the structural and institutional challenges facing the future.
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The National Archives in Washington held a discussion Thursday about the case that set the museum world on edge and raised alarms about the vulnerability of archives, museums and research collections nationwide.
Ms. Ireland starts at the top of the board with "Murders and Acquisitions, " a dark comedy set in the world of high finance.
The Mann award is given yearly in memory of Dr Jonathan Mann, an epidemiologist who set up the World Health Organisation's first Aids programme.
He has run a 2:04:45 and has his sights set on the world record of 2:03:38.
Set for the world as a whole, the numerical targets do not fit any country in particular.
Three years ago Bolt set the 100m world record after running 9.58 secs at the World Championships.
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