Sentence examples for war instigated from inspiring English sources

What a troubled reign it was, with insurrection, civil war instigated by the mighty Percy family, Welsh rebellion under Owain Glyn Dwr, all exacerbated by a king who was a usurper.

Bramen traces this impulse back to our nation's origins, when the passive framing of the Declaration of Independence ("it becomes necessary") presented the Revolution as a grudging act of war instigated by British tyranny.

Official Israeli history, by contrast, says most Palestinian refugees left to avoid a war instigated by neighbouring Arab states, though it admits a "handful" of expulsions and unauthorised killings.

He and I are in a guerilla war, instigated by his constant insults.

The Ottoman wars instigated great demographic changes.

Suthep, who served as deputy PM after Thaksin was ousted, has called the shutdown the protesters' last battle – a term he has admittedly used multiple times before – but vowed in an interview on Sunday that it would be non-violent and to call off his protest if civil war were instigated.

Some analysts believe the entire Syrian war was instigated when Assad in 2009 rejected a Qatari-Turkish-Saudi proposed gas line through Syrian territory.

Israel fought a war to protect its citizens; Hamas instigated a war and then sacrificed its citizens as casualties of that war, which, under international law, is itself a war crime.

In June former Liberian president Charles Taylor went on trial in The Hague for having instigated war crimes in Sierra Leone.

Flexing the Kremlin military muscle in Syria has diverted the Russian public's attention — and that of the rest of the world — from the bogged-down war the Kremlin instigated in eastern Ukraine last year and the bite of international sanctions that has plunged Russia into recession.

Schrödinger's book, rather than the original 3MP, has caught the attention of many geneticists, who argue that it prompted physicists to move into biology after World War II and instigated the hunt for an "aperiodic crystal" and a "code script" that many felt led to the discovery that DNA was the hereditary molecule and the deciphering of the genetic code.