In one word, it set the American foreign policy agenda for the next four decades, through the cold war.

Ultimately, the demonstrations led to a furious response by Protestant militants and the local police and set the stage for the two decades of turmoil that have seized this land.

Karsten Solheim, the head of Karsten Manufacturing, has set the pattern for club-making for the last two decades, and other manufacturers have generally followed along.

In the end, both artists were employed, and Lanfranco's lavish dome decoration (completed 1627) set the model for such decorations for the following decades.

The challenge that Bell Labs has set for the next few decades is to make ever more capable communications systems as easy to use as they are powerful, to make the technology sufficiently advanced that it becomes transparent.

His monumental Marian column (1650) on the Old Town Square in Prague (destroyed in 1918) would set an example of Baroque style for the next decades.

This framework set the tone of Palestinian nationalism for the ensuing decades.

These "musical comedies", as he called them, revolutionized the London stage and set the tone for the next three decades.

As described by Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine, "The band's first four albums set the blueprint for punk, especially American punk and hardcore, for the next two decades."

Each set its own vector of development for the next two decades.