Their need to sustain ever-larger populations also set in motion a cycle of geographic expansion by means of conquest and war.
But if he can combine toughness with honesty, Noynoy may yet be able to raise standards and set in motion a cycle of improvement.
This in turn set in motion a cycle of border enforcement that produced more, rather than fewer, undocumented migrants living north of the border — not to mention the toxic politics around the issue.
An optimist, and someone prepared to take the long view, might look to all these developments — a catalyzed region, a changed Western view of the acceptability of a totalitarian ideology, rediscovered national pride — and argue that the Iraqi invasion, for all its own terrible human cost, has also set in motion a cycle that will prove to be a liberating one.
The international community's failure to respond effectively set in motion further cycles of conflict in the region, including a war in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has claimed more than 3 million lives and caused more than 1 million more people to flee.
As demonstrated by Kabat-Zinn [75], patients who have been educated to use mindfulness may better manage stressful situations, increase their self-efficacy, and learn to manage pain more adequately avoiding the compulsion between pain and medication intake which easily sets in motion the vicious cycle of pain and medication and to the condition of overuse.
If we reverse the vicious cycle of inequity and inequality by setting in motion a virtuous cycle, by working to invest in every child, everywhere, from the beginning of her life.
By supporting consumption, it has brought businesses and jobs into some of the poorest corners of Brazil, setting in motion a virtuous cycle of economic growth.
As China dramatically escalated its crackdown in the wake of the riots, the separatists' actions became increasingly brutal, setting in motion a vicious cycle of violence.
That set in motion a disastrous cycle of events.
