set the pace

: to cause to sit : place in or on a seat

: to put (a fowl) on eggs to hatch them

: to put (eggs) for hatching under a fowl or into an incubator

: the act or action of setting

: the condition of being set

: a number of things of the same kind that belong or are used together

: intent, determined

: intentional, premeditated

: fixed by authority or appointment : prescribed, specified

: rate of movement

: rate of progress

: an example to be emulated

: to walk with often slow or measured tread

: to move along : proceed

: to go at a pace

: contrary to the opinion of