set in motion

• Poner en marcha un proceso, una actividad o una serie de acontecimientos; hacer que algo empiece a funcionar o a ocurrir.

To start a process, activity, or series of events; to cause something to begin happening or operating.

1. Start a processB2formal

   To cause something to begin or to start a series of events.

   poner en marcha

   • The new policy set in motion a series of changes.
   • His speech set in motion a wave of protests.
   • The discovery set in motion a chain of scientific breakthroughs.