Sentences with phrase «sets events in motion»

The childhood arc also sets the events in motion well for the overall tale ahead, which is as well constructed as any other Tales game, and thankfully lacking the complex terminology of other entries in the series.

Low - level shots in deep focus convey a sense of stealth and subterfuge, before extreme close - ups of the «Enter» key sets events in motion.

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.»

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.

The Avengers finally went up against Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War and set events in motion that could change the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe.

I want to say they showed up like the angel Gabriel appearing to the Virgin Mary, setting events in motion I could never have guessed.

Armand Gamache has a terribly bad feeling about it, and when a body is discovered soon after the figure finally vanishes, it seems some kind of debt set these events in motion.

Before Brian Michael Bendis departs Marvel for DC Comics in an exclusive agreement, the writer looks to be setting events in motion that will culminate in War Machine's revival in a preview of Invincible Iron Man # 600.

The first to hit the platform was part three, Zero Time Dilemma: perfectly playable on its own, but it needs this double bill to set events in motion.

The Telepods manage to open the game's first time Gate, sending Marle back to the past and setting events in motion.

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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.

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.

But make no mistake — when Jesus came to earth, it was so that He could set in motion events that would culminate in a Kingdom where there is no more crying or grief.

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.

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.

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.

Science acknowledges a creation event in the Big Bang... to accept God, you only need to believe that there could be a higher power that set things into motion.

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

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.

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.

«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.

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

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

When he shut down the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption in March, Cuomo set in motion events that would test his poise.

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.

Like an asteroid put on a collision course with the earth millions of years ago, the starlings invaded my territory because of events set in motion in the distant past.

Moreover, she found, once the toxins are taken up by cells lining the mammalian gut, these sections become activated, setting in motion a chain of intracellular events that causes intestinal inflammation and tissue damage.

The process that the body sets in motion in the event of inflammation is complex, but also impressive.

The church was built on the spot where Czar Alexander II was assassinated by revolutionaries in 1881, setting in motion a sequence of events that led, eventually, to me.

Now we appear to have set in motion a series of events that, even if we can manage to bring our greenhouse gas production under control, threatens to change the very nature of the planet we live on.

The second enormous challenge that we need to face as a result of the events set in motion 10,000 years ago with the development of agriculture is climate change.

Delbrück's summer course on bacteriophages in 1945 at Cold Spring Harbor in New York set in motion the chain of events that led to understanding the genetic code by which the sequence of the nucleotides in DNA is translated into the sequence of amino acids in a protein.

When calories are cut too much, or held too low for too long, your body thinks you are starving and sets into motion a series of metabolic and hormonal events, which ultimately result in muscle loss, slow metabolism and plateaus.

Insulin is released when carbs are consumed and is what sets in motion a number of events that leads to carbohydrates and creatine being pushed into the muscle cell leading to greater muscle fullness when supplementing creatine.

A bizarre chain of events is set in motion as a badly injured auto - accident victim arrives at the hospital and, in his unconscious state, connects with the ghost of a girl.

There are many McGuffins here, a McGuffin being the word Alfred Hitchcock used to describe the more or less irrelevent instigation or event that sets in motion a movie's action.

A strange phone call sets in motion a series of traumatic events in writer / director Jeanne Labrune's self - described «fantasy,» C'est le Bouquet!

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Their jaw - dropping, feel - good story instantly becomes a global sensation complete with fame and celebrity, however, the fairy - tale reunion sets in motion a series of events that unearth an unimaginable secret - a secret with radical

Events set in motion long ago come to their conclusion.

Thus are the wheels set in motion for the first major Civil Rights demonstration of the 1950s, with Rosa rising to heroic status in the eyes of her people, an event that also profoundly alters the life of local religious leader Martin Luther King Jr. (played by the Reverend's son, Dexter Scott King).

Fiction and reality collide when the bewildered and hilariously resistant Harold hears the Narrator say that events have been set in motion that will lead to his imminent death.

That simple action sets into motion a series of events that allow Boorman to deal with some difficult aspects of war in a near perfect balance of comedy and drama.

It can set in motion a chain of events that may or may not greatly impact the Oscar race.

The end of this game sets in motion further events that then span the events of Metal Gear Solid 1, 2 and 4.

One of the greatest moments in the film is where Lawrence sets in motion a chain of events that conspires against her husband and his cons.

However, this simple act of courage and defiance will set in motion events that put Afshin's life at risk.