Sentence examples for he sets in motion from inspiring English sources

Far from restoring the peace, he sets in motion his own ruin by banishing his cousin.

When the owner of the land, who has a history with their absent mother, demands payment, he sets in motion a series of violent deaths.

He sets in motion a way of thinking about what the novel can do that will influence Dumas, Fenimore Cooper, Manzoni, Tolstoy and countless others.

Having persuaded himself that his wife, Hermione, is pregnant by another man, he sets in motion a train of events that will bring suffering and desolation to those closest to him.

When Killmonger arrives there, after the death of King T'Chaka (the father of T'Challa), he sets in motion a reckoning not only with his rival but with broader questions of legitimacy, lineage, and connection.

Dodge is a pid-runner – someone who trades in ID tags allowing citizens to evade the alien surveillance – and when he saves the life of a girl called Hope he sets in motion a series of events that might bring about humanity's long-awaited salvation.

The transformations he set in motion were incidental to his struggles, which remained irreducibly personal.

The process he set in motion would take almost six years to conclude.

Before leaving, he set in motion a campaign that raised $6.2 million for a new production center.

And he set in motion the strategy of dispersing defense all over the court.

For example, he set in motion frottage, another way of introducing chance and avoiding conventional skill.