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  • 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.

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  • The mechanism of life may be set in motion by our genes, as the mechanism of football is set in motion by our feet, but the feelings we acquire are unique to our own weird walk through time.

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  • 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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  • The slightest lifting of his finger should be able to set a chain of actions in motion.

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  • The law, once set in motion, can be like a huge ship propelled by logic and precedent.

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  • If you'd like you can also set it to be motion sensitive, in other words, if something moves it'll take the picture and send it to the site.

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  • 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.

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  • Although preliminary charges have been announced, they could eventually be dropped, but a filing of indictments would set a trial in motion.

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  • But an angry, spiteful Roosevelt decided to create a committee of wise public servants who would regulate the system and provide capital as needed. (He wouldn't be the last to do so.) He set the wheels in motion and, five years later, the Fed was born.

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  • Jeff Morgan, the soldier who set Noor's journey in motion, says everyone knew coping with life would never be easy for Noor.

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