Sentences with phrase «of events in motion»

And our different responses set different courses of events in motion.

In short, and generally, proximate cause means the actual event that set another series of events in motion.

A dependent intervening cause is when the defendant sets a series of events in motion.

It puts a series of events in motion that result in humorous chaos for those around him.

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It might sound strange to say, but I'm grateful for the series of events losing my job set in motion, because those months were among the most profound and precious of my life.

Meanwhile, Italy's referendum this upcoming Sunday threatens — if Italians reject the reform proposals — to set in motion a chain of events that could result in that country leaving the Eurozone.

Billionaire Wang Jianlin, chairman and president of Dalian Wanda Group, right, shakes hands with Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), during an event in Los Angeles on Oct. 17, 2016.

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Greenwalt was one of five «Women of Influence» I interviewed onstage last March at an event hosted by Tech in Motion: Silicon Valley.

While the decision to publicize the suspects» identities resulted in the arrest of one of the men, it set in motion a violent string of events that lasted for 26 hours.

In hindsight, they count the success of their albums and the forward motion that resulted as some of the most significant events for them.

In principle, they thought, if one could know the location and motion of each atom at a particular point in time, one could predict all subsequent eventIn principle, they thought, if one could know the location and motion of each atom at a particular point in time, one could predict all subsequent eventin time, one could predict all subsequent events.

But as long as one is committed to substantialist thinking, one assumes that in the ultimate analysis the event can be understood in terms of matter in motion — atoms moving around in the void.

This means that, instead of analyzing events into matter in motion, we analyze matter and motion in terms of the field of events.

But most modern philosophers have supposed that when we analyze these events fully, we can explain them in terms of the activities of subjects or the motions of objects.

But it is Christ's coming that sets these events in motion: «Lambs must be immolated for him who will be crucified, who takes away the sins of the world.»

When Martin Luther nailed his lengthy list of doctrinal objections to the church door in Wittenberg, he probably never imagined that his actions would set in motion a train of events which would rend the Western Church in two for the next 500 years.

He lists four distinct analyses of time in Western philosophy:» (I) time as a space - like extended dimension, or as an actual series; (2) time as recurrent periodic motion; (3) time as progressive maturity or age; and (4) time as a distention of the soul, awareness of the sequences of states and events that make up our subjective experience» (WPP 65).

What is truly a miracle, in the pejorative sense of an event having no rational connection with what has gone before, is the emergence of a being with consciousness, free will, and a capacity to understand the laws of nature in a universe which in the beginning contained only matter in mindless motion.

Galileo's rethinking of the idea of motion, his idea that motion was a natural state for matter, did wonders for the attempt to understand acceleration and the behavior of projectiles, but it certainly raised hob with the Aristotelian account of events in the heavens.

The voice of teenage heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) reverberates around a packed but silent town square, setting in motion a chain of events that will almost certainly lead to her death.

While just about everyone familiar with Scripture has heard of the beautiful Queen Esther, few know of Vashti, the «other queen,» whose defiance set in motion the events that would allow Esther to rise to power and save the Jewish people.

But in the chronic case, where the patient is not in imminent danger of death, the omission of assisted N&H is a lethal omission, for by that omission we set in motion a chain of events known to be death - dealing.

After trying so long to think of events as simply the product of matter in motion, it is time to think of matter as a pattern of events.

When God saw that this destruction was inevitable, He set in motion a series of events to rescue and deliver as many people as He could from this great evil.

As described in a Science paper, astronomers measured the motion of gas to a distance approximately 5.5 times the event horizon radius.

In a statement the DUSA said: «The Student Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Dundee passed a motion banning the SPUC and similar organisations from DUSA ran events such as Freshers» Fair.

The dominant philosophy of modernity has analyzed events in terms of matter in motion.

And by way of a bribe to the King, he set in motion some events that would do just that.

But as every motion in space is relative and can be transformed into a rest by an appropriate change of the frame of reference, it is permissible to regard the present moment as stationary and future events as moving toward the past with an equal and opposite velocity, to wit, opposite with respect to the velocity of the present moment in the first picture.

At any rate it shows a complete failure to understand its meaning when it is objected that my definition reduces the event of revelation to a cause which sets self - understanding in motion, so that it is no longer a fact which interferes and changes reality, like a miracle.

I do not believe that PL referees are biased of incompetant, it just seems like it to us fans, who view the incident in slow motion from multiple angles after the event and can take our time to form an opinion.

But the last biting incident he had at school set into motion a chain of events that led us to a great child development specialist, who sent us to a kick - ass occupational therapist and also helped us find a therapeutic aide for him in the classroom.

Top tethers limit the forward motion of your child's head (head excursion) in the event of a crash.

In a dramatic turn of events the amendments were motioned for review by the Party's Executive Committee instead of being afforded an up or down vote by the county committee's members as required by Party rules.

It supported Humanist and Secularist Liberal Democrats (HSLD) in their efforts to draft the motion, and the BHA's Director of Public Affairs and Policy spoke in favour of the motion at a fringe event organised by HSLD and the Liberal Democrat Education Association on Friday.

«In addition to the loss of customer traffic at his restaurant, he has lost several hundreds of thousands of dollars of catering and events accounts because of the cloud of suspicion under which he has lived,» Feit wrote in the motioIn addition to the loss of customer traffic at his restaurant, he has lost several hundreds of thousands of dollars of catering and events accounts because of the cloud of suspicion under which he has lived,» Feit wrote in the motioin the motion.

So all in all, I will be surprised in the event of a programme motion being tabled if the number of rebels is below 50.

The events are part of an alleged scheme laid out in detail in a pretrial motion filed late Tuesday in the government's corruption case against Mangano, his wife, Linda, and former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto.

«However, Petrocam Trading has gone out of its way to lodge false complaints against us and set in motion a sequence of events that have been widely reported.

Speaking at an event for The Motion Picture and Television Fund in Los Angeles, Devito said he was also a «big - time» supporter of Corbyn, adding:

In certain situations, lack of identification can set into motion a nightmarish sequence of events for immigrant communities sometimes leading to detention or deportation.

But the judge overseeing the case, ruling on a host of pretrial motions, found this distinction somewhat immaterial, since Percoco, according to the government, «continued to function in a senior advisory and supervisory role with regard to the Governor's Office, and continued to be involved in the hiring of staff and the coordination of the Governor's official events and priorities.»

Instead, on a City Hall balcony in July of 2003, he drew a silver.40 - caliber pistol and started shooting — killing Mr. Davis and setting events in motion that would place Ms. James in public office.

«This lawsuit set in motion a chain of events that has devastated me and my family to this day,» he said.

The decision to recognise Impress set in motion a possible chain of events that would see newspapers forced to pay the costs of people who make legal complaints against them - even if the paper wins the case.

The final decision regarding any disciplinary action in the event of a confirmed breach would remain with the First Minister, though the Assembly would have provision to formally censure a Minister following a confirmed breach of the Code if a motion was tabled by at least six AMs.

Alternatively, they can aim to reach agreements with smaller parties to support them in parliament in the event of a confidence motion aimed at bringing down the government.

The election may be held at an earlier date in the event of an early election motion being passed by a super-majority of two - thirds in the House of Commons, or a vote of no confidence in the government which is not followed by a vote of confidence within 14 days.

For example, suppose you accept that God steps in every so often to fix the outcome of a quantum event in the brain — manipulating the motion of electrons to cause a neuron to fire, perhaps, influencing your decision on whether to become a priest or a scientist.