Sentence examples for instigated a war from inspiring English sources

Israel fought a war to protect its citizens; Hamas instigated a war and then sacrificed its citizens as casualties of that war, which, under international law, is itself a war crime.

Those who accused the Bush administration of instigating a "war for oil" certainly hadn't done the math.

Mr. Hollande, the Socialist Party challenger to Nicolas Sarkozy to be next president of France, has promised to cut the pension age to 60, tax the rich at 75 percent, renegotiate Europe's fiscal treaty and instigate a war on bankers.

By dominating the news and our public discourse they are well on their way to achieving their crucial objective - to instigate a war between the West and Islam.

President James K. Polk deceived the American public in order to instigate a war against Mexico with his famous claim that "American blood [had been shed] upon the American soil".

A onetime psychiatrist who led a campaign of extreme nationalism and instigated a lethal war of ethnic cleansing, he has been closely guarded since the war ended.

The A.B.A. instigated a salary war.

At the same time crusty competitors Interstate Bakeries and Sara Lee instigated a price war.

Melville could have feigned indecision about the setting, then instigated a little bidding war with Cape Cod or Sag Harbor.

Having instigated a NERF gun war at the last Disrupt SF Hackathon back in September, I understand how fun it is to run around shooting your friends with harmless foam darts in a big open setting.

The latest, shakiest rumor is that Snapchat also spurned four billion dollars from Google, after instigating a bidding war of sorts.