Sentence examples for instigators from inspiring English sources

The word "instigators" is correct and usable in written English
You could use it to describe someone who deliberately provokes or initiates an action. For example, "The police arrested the instigators of the protest."

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instigators

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Plural of instigator

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Even some of Mr Gusinsky's defenders have been willing to give Mr Putin the benefit of the doubt, suggesting that the instigators are cronies from the previous regime, driven by greed and revenge.In this section Putin versus the oligarchs?

WHEN America's International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) entered force in 1998, binding the administration to monitor liberty of conscience across the world and call out violators, the law's instigators assumed that tyrannical states were the main perpetrators of religious persecution.

They do not see themselves as the instigators of trouble, but as the victims of economic change, oppressed by white-dominated police and officialdom.

The main instigators were Cuba, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, all of which strongly oppose an interventionist approach to human rights.

FOR a war effort that has been billed by its American and British instigators as a long, complex and grinding affair, the military campaign against the Taliban has got off to a brisk start.

By the second year of the uprising the idealistic instigators of Syria's revolution had increasingly retreated, leaving an enraged, radicalised Sunni-dominated core.

They argue that by creating chaos and showing up the police as inadequate, the former officers hope to make the case for reconstituting the army, which Mr Aristide disbanded in 1995.Whoever the instigators are, there has been little effort to disarm the armed groups on both sides.

At the same time, Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's president for the past 24 years, has astonished his countrymen by calling for constitutional changes to allow rival candidates to vie for his position for the first time.Related items The Middle East: Democracy stirs in the Middle EastMar 3rd 2005 Lebanon: Time for Syria to goFeb 24th 2005To the instigators of the Iraq war, all this is manna from heaven.

The scale of its success outstripped the imaginings of its instigators.

The main instigators of the recent exchanges have not been Hamas itself but smaller groups such as Islamic Jihad, which have taken it upon themselves to fire rockets into southern Israeli towns ever since the Israelis evacuated the Gaza Strip last year.

If he does restore order quickly, ordinary motorists may not have been inconvenienced for long enough for them to want to turn against the instigators of the protest.

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