Sentence examples for instigating something from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Instigating a trade war with China – something Trump has said he would "love" to do – would cripple the surge in jobs in the state, according to the UCLA Anderson Forecast, a study released Wednesday.

On the other hand, living in a dreamworld is pretty much giving yourself over to imaginings, and waiting for something to happen instead of instigating it yourself.