"started to agitate" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to begin causing trouble or making others feel uneasy. Example: The protesters started to agitate the crowd, chanting loudly and holding up signs demanding change.
From there the idea remained dormant as industry groups started to agitate.
Labor unions, a key Democratic constituency, has also started to agitate for Mr. Cuomo to make a move.
But Disney started to agitate more aggressively for changes in 2009 after DreamWorks Animation's "Kung Fu Panda" won a raft of Annies, and Pixar's "Wall-E" won nothing.
In recent years, Germany's new far-right party Alternative für Deutschland has started to agitate against what it calls the country's Schuldkult – "guilt cult".
"A lot of people with their faces covered started to agitate, and soon after they arrived, the police had to retreat to inside.
During the summer, Farage promised to give May's government time and space to tackle the monumental task of extricating Britain from the E.U., but he has started to agitate from the sidelines again.
But what if, after six months, the activist starts to agitate again, calling for a drastic cut in capital investment not routine, but not unheard of?
Even if the Islamists do not so far look disastrous ones, the prospect of an Islamist president alongside an Islamist-dominated parliament where Salafists are starting to agitate for regressive social laws is worrying.
But as Labour colleagues start to agitate against his leadership, a cabinet sinecure might be attractive.Mr Netanyahu will be looking for a new foreign minister to replace Avigdor Lieberman, whose far-right Yisrael Beitenu was reduced to only six seats (compared with 13 for the newly unified Arab parties that he sought to exclude from the Knesset).
Casualties are escalating to attention-getting levels; public support is deteriorating markedly; hawks inside and outside his administration are pushing for another surge-like escalation; and, maybe most important, the anti-war base that Obama rode to the White House is feeling emboldened and starting to agitate for a pullout.
That's why you see black people who are starting to agitate for black society in America.
