It continues to be a standard setter in a world with strong incentives to evade standards and negligible sanctions for doing so.

All of which raises the question of whether China will eventually replace the US as the world s hegemon, the global economy s rule setter and enforcer.

Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.