Sentence examples for instigate something from inspiring English sources

Britain's last great hope Andy Murray (there really is no plan B), who played after Federer, seemed to instigate something of a walkout of his own.

Not only did he instigate something that could credibly be called an artistic movement; as mobiliser, organiser and proselytiser, he was as important in the history of European modernism as Trotsky was in the history of Russian revolution.

He was out to provoke a reaction, by any means possible: as his art school friend Helen WallingtoldLloyd told me, "He wanted to instigate something and be an imp.

"One man declares himself the jefe, the caudillo, the big leader". Had Obama attempted to instigate something like a cult of personality?

"Hezbollah, like clockwork, was instigating something small every month or two," the U.S. government consultant with ties to Israel said.

Folkhemmet introduced a nationalised health service and a welfare state to Sweden for the first time, and instigated something of a cultural boom.

He said he could not be sure but "it looked like" Trump was pointing at him, and may have been "instigating something".

"I've run into O'Reilly many times in public — at Yankee Stadium as recently as a month ago — and never have instigated, and never would dream of instigating, something like that," he wrote.

In the late 70s and early 80s, Rutan instigated something of a revolution in DIY flight by using composites.

I was the typical battered wife—I thought I had done something, that I had been provocative or dressed provocatively or done something to instigate this.

Then, I was confused and wondered if I had done something to instigate it.