Sentence examples for set in motion the plan from inspiring English sources

Although the Clinton administration had set in motion the plan to help opposition groups re-establish activities inside Iraq, it was often tepid in its support for the opposition.

Trying to reconcile ever more clean energy installations with conservation goals is what set in motion the plan — an enormous effort by multiple federal and state agencies, as well as the many interest groups involved, including solar and wind industry trade groups and major environmental organizations.

They now set in motion the planning for their first annual offering of seminars in 1999, and the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute began to work with them on their plans for the coming years.

Rawlings also reorganized the biological sciences on the Ithaca campus and set in motion the plans for constructing a pioneering facility for life science technologies.

Although Hansell did not personally participate in later strategic bombing operations against Germany, he had been instrumental in setting in motion the plans and policies that led to the near total destruction of German war industry.

"Therefore, for your sake and the sake of others like you, I have set in motion the necessary plans to dispose of all my thoroughbred racing and breeding stock between now and the breeding sale in Kentucky in November".

However continually he was suffering in his last summer, there was still plenty of room, in the interstices between his identically painful thoughts, to entertain the idea of suicide, to flash forward through its logic, and to set in motion the practical plans (of which he eventually made at least four) for effectuating it.

Finally, on Oct. 10, 1911, a revolt in the central Chinese city of Wuhan set in motion the events that brought down Sheng's plan and the dynasty and ended 2,000 years of imperial rule.

Amid fears that at least two members on the 1922 Committee executive are planning to set in motion the unseating of Cameron on the weekend after the election, the loyalists are being told they will need to move quickly to save him.

This person sets in motion the social-media plan and makes certain that all parts of the company are looped in.

"Although a difficult process to go through, this sets in motion the comprehensive updated turnaround plan that we have identified, and gives British Home Stores a secure financial footing from which to grow and deliver sustainable profitability.