See articleRinat Akhmetov, a steel tycoon and Ukraine's richest man, instigated rallies in Donetsk to protest against pro-Russian separatism.
Over the following decade Denmark, England, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden all instigated regular censuses of their own.People started finding the sorts of patterns in the resulting data life expectancies, crime rates, causes of death, and the mix of religions and races that are now part of our familiar mental furniture.
The legislation remains blocked but the health minister, Sussan Ley, has just instigated a review which would remove free over-the-counter medications such as painkillers and antacids for pensioners and concession card holders under the safety net.
Malcolm Fraser might have instigated the "Razor Gang" but it was Hawke and Keating who popularised (the now almost forgotten) neologism "economic rationalism".
How sad then that the Warsaw mayor's office has instigated a process to close the museum and incorporate it and its collections within a department at the larger Museum of Warsaw.
For the theatre, which typically attracts audiences of around 80,000 people a year, the pulling of the plug feels premature, as the company has only just embarked on a significant restructuring, instigated by the same arts fund.
In the last 40 years of the 18th century, nearly 700 people petitioned to change a surname by royal licence – and almost a sixth of the name changes were instigated by women who wished to see their birth names continue to posterity.
The 1970s Australian new wave and the subsequent rise in genre film-making was instigated partly by a change in thinking.
Now the government must take another groundbreaking step and reveal whether there was a spy-ring and, if so, whether it was instigated by UK agents.
Prosecutor Lyall Thompson had told the two-day trial that Winehouse had instigated a "deliberate assault" on Flash.
