The phrase 'instigate debate' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which someone starts a discussion or an argument. For example, "The professor asked questions to instigate debate among the students about the reading."
We must instigate debate and actively engage, following ideological convictions and visions without merely carving out an escape route from an uncomfortable situation that might turn out to be a dead end.
Partners involved in the Candles for Rwanda initiative include Rwanda15 (the official Rwandan commemoration), the Imbuto Foundation, Kigali City Council, Ibuka, the Aegis Trust, Three Generations, Eye Spy Films, The Infantry, The Harry Potter Alliance, and Instigate Debate.
Burke's crash inevitably called to mind the one involving Pearce, which instigated debates on the safety of such events.
It can also table amendments and instigate debates.
"Here, even when a tabloid like Moskovsky Komsomolets prints something scandalous, it doesn't instigate public debate, it doesn't affect public consciousness.
In an article entitled Plea Against Academic Conformism, a group of academics calling themselves "Christiane Schulte and friends" say they had wanted to instigate "a debate on why dedicated social criticism has become such a rarity in the humanities".
It's already instigating worthwhile debate on the right to die.
You have to give the Emerson points for instigating the debate.
The subject matter – American gun culture – has scope, but there's little in this pilot to suggest Cocked is terribly keen on instigating a debate on that topic.
The magazine's profile of Elizabeth Gilbert a couple of weeks ago not only drew comments about that author's well-known book, "Eat, Pray, Love," but it also instigated a debate about readers' own intellects.
A surge of young Viennese architects are instigating a debate over how best to create a modern presence without obscuring the masklike facades and enigmatic surfaces of the city's atmospheric past.
