8 sentences with “motion”

Light and temperature set in motion our body's internal clock that regulates our lives and habits.

Sound is produced by the vibratory motion of bodies and is transmitted through a medium such as air or water.

This perspective lent itself to one in which God could be seen as a great scientist or watchmaker: the divine intelligence that created a perfect universe and then set it in motion.

With her hand on the door handle, Carla followed the policeman with her eyes. Time passed in slow motion until, finally, another officer emerged from a patrol car with her son in his arms.

In the years following Napoleon's defeat, the conspiracy of army officers set in motion plans to force the Russian government to accept liberal reforms, especially a constitution guaranteeing basic rights and freeing the serfs.

In 1792, the Frenchman Dominique Larrey set in motion two- or four-wheeled carriages, with their interior suitably padded, for the exclusive transfer of the sick from one place to another: it was the first ambulance that began to run in the world.

These theories by Galileo refuted Aristotelian physics, which had claimed that objects are only kept in motion when there is a direct impulse; Galileo demonstrated through experiments the principles of inertia and acceleration and began the task of mathematically defining their workings.

As it turned out, they didn't have to wait long to set in motion the military engagement of the Holy Alliance. The first liberal revolt against a conservative monarch occurred immediately after the Congress of Vienna in what had traditionally been one of the most conservative states in Europe: Spain.