Verb
set on foot (third-person singular simple present sets on foot, present participle setting on foot, simple past and past participle set on foot)
(transitive) To originate; to put into action.
Government by kings was first introduced into the world by the Heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry. Thomas Paine
Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of communism... As Fascism sprang from Communism, so Nazism developed from Fascism. Thus were set on foot those kindred movements which were destined soon to plunge the world into more hideous strife, which none can say has ended with their destruction. Winston Churchill