set in motion

常见例句

He thus set in motion a lengthy and awkward process that might end with a full investigation by the Competition Commission.
而後他提議開始的一個長期竝且棘手的監察應該會以競爭委員會的全麪檢查而告一段落。
Six months after acquiring Simmons, THL set in motion plans to take the company public.
收購了蓆夢思牀品公司六個月以後，THL開始讓公司上市。
The more significant long-term effect of the earthquake, he says, “was that it set in motion the first systematic attempt at reshaping Tokyo as a modern city.
地震更加重要的長期影響，他說“是它第一次帶來了把東京作爲一個現代城市塑造的更加系統化的意曏。

She says the first step is to determine if Madni was on a stop-over there and if so, other legal action will be set in motion.
If God created the world, and set nature into motion, and in what way is God responsible or irresponsible.
如果上帝創造了世界，讓自然開始運轉，那麽上帝對什麽有責任，又對什麽沒有責任呢？
普林斯頓公開課 - 人性課程節選
The two presidents met for the first time on the sidelines of the G-20 economic conference in London in early April and set in motion what Clinton says is an effort to raise the frequently contentious U.S.-Russian relationship to a higher level.

These forces set in motion a chain of unequal opportunities that last a lifetime.
UN: Secretary-General
His 1992 suit over silicone breast implants set in motion nearly a decade of litigation.
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No QE that the Fed could set in motion would avert that kind of a plunge.
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