What is "setting aside"

Usage examples of "setting aside".

All we ask is you consider setting aside some of your other burdens.

Soldiers of Verity's own guard, setting aside his colors to take on his queen's .

And if history has for its object the study of the movement of the nations and of humanity and not the narration of episodes in the lives of individuals, it too, setting aside the conception of cause, should seek the laws common to all the inseparably interconnected infinitesimal elements of free will.

Originally, the Vice President was supposed to have been the losing candidate who, after losing, would patriotically take his place in a government not his and preside over the Senate, setting aside petty political differences to serve the country.

I asked curiously, undoing my brooch and setting aside my salt-stained cloak.