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The word 'instigation' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun, and it means the action of providing a process or course of action that results in a particular event or activity. Example: His instigation of the project has resulted in a huge success.
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instigation
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The act of instigating, or the state of being instigated; incitement; especially to evil or wickedness.
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Having the entire family's fortune riding on one single amateur dance performance, thanks to Tiffany's instigation of a verbally binding bet is not one of them.
The theatre was set up in 1969, at the instigation of Bill Gaskill, in a club-cum-rehearsal room at the top of the theatre.
"The finance was from three top Turkish banks on the instigation of the president of Turkey.
At that moment, it hardly seemed possible that the race could degenerate any further.But it did, and largely at the Terrell camp's instigation.
In practice they do not deliver the goods: witness Pirelli's value-destroying shopping spree ten years ago which lost it more than €3 billion ($4.1 billion) on its stake in Telecom Italia, at the instigation of a shareholder who owned just 8% of its equity.
They have acted as both buffer and alarm bell, this month exposing the renewed instigation of violence by neighbouring Rwanda.The UN's African missions have also helped create the continent's own peacekeepers.
This much has been confirmed by a Foreign Ministry spokesman in Beijing, who said monks from "some temples" had carried out an illegal activity on March 10th "under the instigation and encouragement of a small group of people".
And it is why, in December 2010, at America's instigation, the fund's members agreed to a bolder reform that would double the quotas and raise the emerging economies' voting power.In this section Rise of the robots Dereliction of duty On the march All for one Boring can still be bad ReprintsMore than three years later, Congress has still not endorsed this reform.
At the instigation of Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's leftist president, this year six others were freed.
At the instigation of the market's regulated brokers, about 20 unlicensed stockbrokers (coulissiers) were arrested and had their papers seized.
In Brazil 36% of concession contracts have been renegotiated, usually at the instigation of the government above the regional average of 30%.
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