Sentence examples for cannot be set in motion from inspiring English sources

Football cannot be set in motion artificially.

Secondly, we see that a thing that neither is in motion nor contains any motion within itself can be set in motion; e.g. inanimate things that are (whether the whole or some part is in question) not in motion but at rest, are at some moment set in motion: whereas, if motion cannot have a becoming before which it had no being, these things ought to be either always or never in motion.

The strike of a praying mantis's forelegs is so fast that, once they are set in motion, the mantis cannot control its aim.

It was set in motion from 2013.

Thus the plot is set in motion.

A deal was set in motion.

The first was set in motion earlier.

And then events are set in motion.

An investigation was set in motion.

Those conflicts are being set in motion now.

The poverty cycle for these families is set in motion.