By setting in motion a controlled self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, Enrico Fermi and his colleagues began a process whose consequences continue to affect the course of modern history.
Schlosser asked his readers to consider the chain of consequences they set in motion every time they sit down to eat in a fast-food outlet.
Cordelia's little word "nothing", from which, according to classical philosophy, there could be no consequences, sets in motion a chain of action and reaction that, like the butterfly's wings in the chaos theory, leads to Armageddon.
And the basic reason was, as the court put it, that when so applied 'the statute governs the reciprocal liabilities of two corporations, existing only by virtue of the laws of Delaware, and permanently within its jurisdiction, for the consequences of conduct set in motion by them there, operating outside the territory of the state, it is true, but within no other territorial jurisdiction'.
Those susceptible to conspiracy theory are willing to believe that the "real" world--the world where real political and economic power is exercised and real consequences are set in motion--is entirely hidden from us on an everyday basis.
Alternatively, this may be the consequence of events set in motion during HIV-1 infection, but not sustained by ongoing viral replication.
But that's the consequence of changes imagined and set in motion half a century ago.
Relocation is the last resort, the last option to protect people's lives, homes, cultures, and well-being, but that's the consequence of what we have set in motion with our enormous amount of greenhouse emissions.
Given how many terrible things he's done and the awful events he's set in motion, those consequences should land like a ton of bricks.
