Similar words: in moderation, motion, emotion, demotion, commotion, motional, nonmotile, emotional. Meaning: v. get going; give impetus to.
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1) The wheels of change have been set in motion.
2) His death set in motion a train of events that led to the outbreak of war.
3) Her sharp, aggressive tone set in motion the events that led to her downfall.
4) A study by military experts was immediately set in motion.
5) The Church voted to set in motion the process allowing women to be priests.
6) Giles set in motion a train of events which would culminate in tragedy.
7) The wheels have already been set in motion.
8) The processes of rethinking and reorganization set in motion by the scandals over unprotected children were slow and painful.
9) The discovery set in motion two days of searching for the bodies.
10) Once set in motion this requires only the periodic visit to negotiate such matters as price changes.
11) It was decided to set in motion negotiations to form a Neighbourhood Watch in the Belmont Road area.
12) What the defendant has done is to set in motion a chain of events.
13) These were set in motion once fighting began and were kept in effect despite falls in prices.
14) Ugly tricks were played on him, set in motion by the mother.
15) Set in motion, she would soon be traced and while they ran her down he might sell out and get clear.
16) When the glass was touched, the mechanism was set in motion.
17) The process which Peter had set in motion persisted to a considerable extent after his death.
18) It helped set in motion renewed enthusiasm for tree clearance in upland catchment areas as yet another aspect of the land drainage solution.
19) None the less,(sentencedict.com) the reversal that was set in motion reverberated powerfully on both sides of the thirty-eighth parallel.
20) But once set in motion, the enormous machinery of a traditional wedding had a life of its own.
21) George I set in motion the preparation of the Royal Charter for his new bank.
22) Nixon's visit set in motion the rapprochement between Beijing and Washington.
23) He hoped that the tightly packed deuterium atoms would be set in motion, their nuclei bumping into one another and fusing.
24) If you can solve them, an avalanche of new possibilities is set in motion.
25) One thing kept leading to another, and before I knew it a small industry had been set in motion.
26) Be that as it may,[http://sentencedict.com/set in motion.html] the precise chain is not known; somehow the guild was informed and the train of events set in motion.
27) Life should do more than spin on like an idiotic top some one had set in motion but could no longer stop.
28) A weight suspended on the end of a piece of string and then set in motion acts as a pendulum.
29) As evidence of good faith, the machinery of evacuation was immediately set in motion.
30) In any case, an irresponsible control program has been set in motion without sufficient information as to its future effects.
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