It was set in motion from 2013.
It set in motion, from Latin America to Eastern Europe, forces for social change that would alter the course of world politics.
"Nothing goes off suddenly; even the earthquakes set in motion from the depth of the earth to the rooftops of villages".
The dynamics for the Green Movement uprising had been set in motion from the 2009 election campaign, with reformist leaders mostly following the rank and file rather than them leading the protest.
Of course, everyone who does anything depends, at a given moment, on the vote of confidence of an employer or a backer, but there are two kinds of people, those already in motion and those set in motion from a standstill.
I'd say that was set in motion from when the groundwork was laid.
The dysfunctionality should not have been a surprise, since the whole shallow rush-to-false-judgment trope was set in motion from the beginning, when an Arab onlooker was tackled near the finish line because, you know, he just had to be responsible.
British Prime Minister David Cameron signaled he might not trigger a clause setting in motion the exit from the EU before October.
Placed in proper perspective, Bernie Sanders may be just one justice away from setting in motion what he calls a political "revolution".
Placed in proper perspective, Bernie Sanders may be just one justice away from setting in motion what he calls a political "revolution". In a country with a Constitution beginning with the words, "We the People," should our economy work for all of us instead of just a few of us?
That's when Net Gain (Hagel and Davison) was written around a foundational insight: that digital technology was setting in motion a shift in market power from the makers of goods and services to the people that buy them, and to talented employees from the institutions that employ them.
