We wanted to set in motion something that effects the league when we are gone," he said.
As 2011 rolls to an end, I am reminding myself that it's time to set in motion something I began last year.
That move set in motion something that has become the Holy Grail of advertising, the cross-sell.
While Canvey might not gain independence this year, or even next, he believed he'd set in motion something that can't be stopped.
The man's fate is set in motion by something that is impersonal and inanimate: a wayward shipping container full of children's shoes.
We see nothing like this in the case of inanimate things, which are always set in motion by something else from without: the animal, on the other hand, we say, moves itself: therefore, if an animal is ever in a state of absolute rest, we have a motionless thing in which motion can be produced from the thing itself, and not from without.
To make sure it was the red ball's autonomous movement that was critical, experimenters partly occluded the red ball as it began its movement so that it wasn't clear whether the movement was autonomous or set in motion by someone or something else.
"It was an absurd escalation of something set in motion when critics started having to come to specific places to review albums, rather than in their offices, so the music wouldn't be let out," said Alan Light, a veteran music critic and author, who signed the Swift paper.
I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife …" It was something set in motion by that poem, more than any other, which led him to follow his mother, to study English literature, and to teach.
"This suggests," said Helen C. Looker, senior author of the paper, "that obesity in children, even prepubescent children, may have very serious long-term health effects through midlife -- that there is something serious being set in motion by obesity at early ages".
He puts his pieces together like a mechanic, knowing what it takes to get the engine running, and with this opera, which he worked and reworked extensively before it finally got to the stage in 1970, there is a sense that the tires have been kicked, the oil has been changed and something has been set in motion that has already shown it can give people a good ride.
