"agitate about" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to cause someone to feel anxious, worried, or upset about something. Example: The students agitated about the new school policy on dress code. They were concerned that it would restrict their personal expression and creativity.
"People will write about, agitate about it.
Damon has campaigned against teachers' pay being pegged to children's test results: "So we agitate about those things, and try to change them, and try to change the policy, but you know, it's a tough one".
So UBS ends up concluding that Knight Vinke was more likely to agitate about the company's incentive schemes: Kesa divisional management is fully accountable for individually agreed targets and we think that the senior management team should disclose these targets to increase shareholder confidence in delivering the strategic plan.
Berman singles out the individual behind Fightthepatent.com, for instance, for having tried to raise $250,000 from porn companies so he could agitate about Acacia full time.
Since 1991, the community of persons who study and agitate about protections for individual privacy has gathered at an often jumbled conference called Computers, Freedom and Privacy.
He is Dallin H. Oaks, who could have been expected to wage war on one side as factions agitate about the loss of religious liberty, thanks to Supreme Court and other court actions.
Now he saw that the freedom the firebrand had been agitating about was his for the asking.
Mr. Garment also said that "paintings are not going to be torn down off the walls" and that "there's nothing for people to get agitated about".
"It's this flaunting of inequality and conspicuous consumption that people get agitated about," said Ben Roberts, a researcher at the Human Sciences Research Council, which recently conducted a survey of South Africans documenting widespread disillusionment with local government.
Originality comes in two kinds: originality of ideas, and originality of labor, and although it is the first kind that we get agitated about, we should honor the second kind still more.
The one thing that I get really agitated about is how little things have changed in many of these neighborhoods.
