"I was lippy," said Ms. Keener, who was temporarily expelled in the 11th grade and was considered a chief instigator in her crowd of ungovernable teenage girlfriends, "but not the supreme leader.
When I said that he was often mentioned as a chief instigator of the massacres in Butare, and asked what he could tell me about that, he gave a dry, breathy chuckle.
Faced with the ever-widening gap between rich and poor, widespread degradation of the natural world and runaway climate change, business has played a dual role, as chief instigator and seemingly disinterested observer.
"By competing for market share in an environment of ample global liquidity, cross-border banking became the chief instigator of an unprecedented credit boom in the region.
It feels like a thriller from which the chief instigator of thrills has been surgically removed: "Sweeney Todd" minus the titular bloodthirsty barber.
Obama on Tuesday repeated his call to oust Assad, whom the White House considers the chief instigator of a conflict that has left more than 200,000 people dead, spawned Islamic State's extremist army and sparked an international refugee crisis.
For these and other reasons, finding a kinder, gentler project influenced more by the Beatles than Korn is such a shocker, especially considering that To My Surprise is the spawn of not just a Slipknot member but the band's founder, unofficial leader and chief instigator, Shawn Crahan, who dresses as a clown and beats a percussion contraption onstage.
He is also said to have been the chief instigator of an equally foul war in next-door Sierra Leone.In 1997, he terrorised Liberians into electing him president.
"Despair will hold a place in my heart," he sings, "A bigger one than you do (do, do)." Against synth drums and acoustic guitar, he adds: "And I will always be nicer to the cat/Than I am to you (you, you)." Leave it to Mr. Stewart, Xiu Xiu's chief instigator, to make a crisis of faith seem both grandiose and bitchy.
Hill is "Chief Instigator" at Blockstream, a company that works to improve the bitcoin ecosystem through side chains.
That Shepherd also used letters as clues to a most horrible crime (and the chief instigator to more than one death) sealed the deal for me: Shepherd is a marvel, and A Fatal Likeness is a must-read.
