1. The presence of the wise men has helped set the ball rolling . 2. And he offers clear, simple rules of thumb on how to set the ball rolling . 3. But in such a matter it is not for lawyers to set the ball rolling . 4. Jacob Trombka, a physicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, set the ball rolling . 5. In January, SBI announced it would increase its charges by 30 per cent and set the ball rolling . 6. It will also set the ball rolling for the state enterprises to raise money from the overseas markets. 7. Certainly we still hope that these talks will lead to a mechanism that can then set the ball rolling towards normalization. 8. Paul Scholes set the ball rolling with a strike from the edge of the box after a good run from Rio Ferdinand. 9. Stephen Hammerman, the firm's vice chairman and general counsel, helped set the ball rolling on exposing the insider trading scandals of the 1980s. 10. Oh course, I only looked it up after I'd created the article, and by then I'd more or less set the ball rolling .