What is "set the stage"

Usage examples of "set the stage".

After the theater he enacted his gruesome little drama and then carefully set the stage so that the police would think it was a typical burglar's performance.

Now to set the stage for number six, the fatal one, the one which would determine whether five billion people, including his friends, would live or die.

Zambendorf, confident that the GSEC Board would never go along with the idea, had reacted with a show of enthusiasm, partly because anything else would have failed the expectations of the faithful and partly to set the stage in advance for exploiting another “.

Iacocca that helped set the stage for the owner-operator-entrepreneur that I enjoy being today.

All of the foregoing set the stage for a three-pronged, parallelof the British Empire.

With her own skill and magic Laura set the stage and peopled it as well.

The First Foundation would be glorious, but its role was to help set the stage for something else.

We withdrew in the third year of the war to embarrass the Warlord and set the stage for Kasumi's training for the coming journey.

Now that Stanfield has set the stage, he slips behind a curtain of sullen silence.

We can see that the real reason we spent five centuries creating material supports for human life was to set the stage for something else, a way of life that returns the mystery to existence.