Sentence examples for set it in motion from inspiring English sources

It was unknown whether the train moved on its own or whether someone set it in motion.

Each form of government has a principle, a set of "human passions which set it in motion" (SL 3.1); and each can be corrupted if its principle is undermined or destroyed.

So, well, we set it in motion.

"Regis set it in motion," Ms. Ripa said.

"If you set it in motion, you're guilty, and he set it in motion," Schatzow responded on one occasion.

The Egyptians achieved something similar, but they never set it in motion.

The book is very short, but it conjures up an entire city and then sets it in motion.

The theatre is always about time: stopping time and setting it in motion, about actions that alter the past and the future.

Conflating all this and then setting it in motion is a start, and the contrast between the spareness of the animated images and the density of the ones on the wall introduces a healthy variety.

On the ice, Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, two of the best players in the world, swooped in on the power play, setting it in motion like a giant clockwork mechanism while the crowd roared in delight.

The collapse is coming via an unexpected channel; rather than originating from abroad, the shock that sets it in motion comes from the inside, a blast of stimulus from the US Federal Reserve.