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.
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.
The interdisciplinary field of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) provides a good environment for studying the effects of hostility on health because of the complex sequelae of events in the central nervous system, endocrine system, immune system, blood and heart, all of which are set in motion as a consequence of chronic negative emotions.
Where's the omniscient valet the nation needs to clean up a proliferating set of potentially disastrous consequences set in motion by the idiocies of a group of pea-brained Old Etonians like yourself?
The creation of the single currency — obeying the law of unintended consequences — set in motion a powerful process of European disintegration.
If the Supreme Court reverses Roe v. Wade, it could set in motion a social experiment whose consequences might well be the subject of a considerably less optimistic column a couple of decades hence.
If we did move into Cuba in response to some overt act or offensive build-up by the U.S.S.R., a global chain of events might be set in motion which could have catastrophic consequences.
Indeed, the changes that the protesters set in motion will have long-term consequences for the students who arrive long after they graduated.
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.
As the book shows, the chain of events set in motion a century ago, with its tragic consequences for the Palestinian Arab inhabitants of the land, has seen a shift in the Guardian's reporting, reflecting a much greater understanding among the wider public in this country of the catastrophic and ongoing impact on Palestinians.
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'.
