The two men traded barbs after Jones' win over Alexander Gustafsson at UFC 232, and things were set in motion.
Surely there are big events to come, and, as has happened in every other "Mad Men" season premiere, no doubt things were set in motion that will continue to play out for the next 11 hours of the show's fifth season.
Safety sticklers take note: the whole thing is set in motion by a car crash caused by a driver who is talking on a cellphone -- Thursday at 8 p.m., Thursday/Early Friday at 12 45 a.m. on TBS.
And then events are set in motion.
Plans are set in motion, then go nowhere.
It is difficult to say what life is going to be like in 100 years, but certain things have clearly been set in motion, among them climate change.
Things had already been set in motion at Menlo Park, and at WhatsApp the founders and their advisors were calculating how much they could conceivably ask for in deal talks.
We may further point out that the defender of this position is fighting against the obvious, for on this theory there can be no such thing as increase: nor can there be any such thing as compulsory motion, if it is impossible that a thing can be at rest before being set in motion unnaturally.
Secondly, we see that a thing that neither is in motion nor contains any motion within itself can be set in motion; e.g. inanimate things that are (whether the whole or some part is in question) not in motion but at rest, are at some moment set in motion: whereas, if motion cannot have a becoming before which it had no being, these things ought to be either always or never in motion.
"The main thing is that the human factor has been set in motion and people's attitudes have been changed," he said recently.
Given how many terrible things he's done and the awful events he's set in motion, those consequences should land like a ton of bricks.
