Toward the end of his Presidency, Harry Truman helped to set in motion plans for a national cultural center.
Sometimes, at some points in history, you only need to move the needle a little bit to set in motion a transformation.
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"Such a loss of Arctic sea ice has recently been assessed to set in motion powerful climate feedbacks which will have an impact far beyond the Arctic itself, " Sommerkorn said.
And then in El Salvador, underscoring the importance of setting in motion and working with the Salvadorans to set in motion sustainable economic development that also has medium- to long-term benefits for the United States, as the President discussed yesterday with regard to immigration.
Depending on whether an object hitting us were a fast-moving comet or a slower asteroid, it would need to be about 2.5 miles across to set in motion the process of reducing light and destroying photosynthesis, without both of which Homo sapiens and the other forms of life on our planet could not survive.
He said Seevakumaran's plan appeared to be set in motion as early as February, when weapons and ammunition purchases were made.
But with a highly complex legal process about to be set in motion, any resolution from this looming trade row could be a long time coming.
My friends Greg and Janice decided to set their plans to move in motion.
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"Everything suggests it was a pure accident where several temporary and unfortunate circumstances caused the woman to set the train in motion when she was cleaning, " Paer Andersson said in a statement, according to AFP news agency.
He is hoping to receive European Funding to set the scheme in motion.
The objective is to set an idea in motion, letting it stretch, ripen, morph, or otherwise develop in collision and combination with other ideas.
My essences and syrups cried out for experimentation, but on humid midsummer afternoons a single concoction was enough to set curious effects in motion.
As Isaac Newton posited, bad guys have to set the explosions in motion, so this time there's a load of baloney about an Asian slave-smuggling ring.
There's more to come: more parking, a stadium renovation, more amenities and more challenges to the rest of the tour, challenges that might be big enough to set larger changes in motion.
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Sure, the watches were inspired by jewelry and considered accessories as much as practicalities, but they still served to set the gear in motion toward a trend toward wristwatches for everyone.
The second challenge is to secure adequate funding to set this fresh commitment to space exploration in motion.
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There is no way to stop a tsunami once set in motion, but there is certainly a way to avoid getting killed by one.
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It often takes a shock to set the reform machine in motion.
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ELN's keenness to set a peace process in motion albeit one from which, say the guerrillas, he and his like must be firmly excluded.
Prime Minister Shimon Peres has said he is committed to the peace process set in motion by his predecessor Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in November.
In light of the two companies reaching an agreement on price yesterday afternoon, a behind-the-scenes participant in the deal asked people to remember what set the whole process in motion.
Mr. BABBITT: Well, there was a nice compromise because President Clinton proclaimed a national marine sanctuary, which is about 80 percent of the way toward a national monument, which closed the area to most but not all fishing and set in motion a study of what kind of permanent protection there out to be.
The slightest lifting of his finger should be able to set a chain of actions in motion.
Immediately after the July 2005 bombings, a large, slow process of consultation was set in motion to ascertain and deal with the causes of Muslim extremism.
The assembly government needs the support of 40 of the 60 assembly members to win the vote and set in motion a process resulting in a referendum on further powers.
And he said something else here that was intriguing: he said he regretted returning to cycling in 2009, suggesting it had possibly set into motion the chain of events that led him to his professional humiliation, a lifetime ban from competition and the hot light of this hotel suite.
The systems that we have set in motion will continue to run by themselves until they crush us.
Sadly, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues are oblivious to the destructive forces they've set in motion.
Their survey of the region set in motion the effort to protect what is now the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
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