Sets off

Usage examples of embarks.

If the United States embarks on a military campaign against Iraq, Baghdad might very well decide to try to overthrow King Abdallah as a way of forestalling or derailing the campaign.

Because Saddam is far more concerned with internal threats and understands Iraqi politics infinitely better than he does international relations, he often embarks on highly risky foreign policy adventures that make no sense to and are unexpected by outside observers, and which he insists have a higher likelihood of success than anyone else would expect.

Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds—and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own.

The young man from the farming village embarks upon a journey of discovery, has some adventures, and then returns to his village wiser in the ways of the world, with rewards for the people of the village that would enrich their lives.

As Reloaded opens, clad in what looks to be a priest's cassock by Versace, Neo embarks on a quest inside the Matrix so as to understand what he must do.

This puts him in a listless mood as he embarks on an errand, which is bound to prove excruciatingly tedious in his considered estimation.