Sentence examples for was the instigation from inspiring English sources

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The obvious purpose of these proposals was the instigation of a confrontation between Pericles and the people; this event, indeed, would come about a few years later.

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Mustafa's defence was that he watched police officers plant the weapon during a search of the flat and, when he demanded to know why they were doing it, he was told it was at the instigation of British authorities.

In Turin in 1677 an attempt was made to murder him, for reasons that are not known, though it was believed to be at the instigation of a Venetian senator with whose fiancée Stradella had eloped.

In no small way, it was at the instigation of Australia that the G20's primacy was established.

French media reports said Mr. Gourgeon was informed Friday of the decision to replace him, with some reports suggesting that the move was at the instigation of Mr. Spinetta, his one-time mentor, because of his frustration with the company's financial performance.

"Even the Institute for National Remembrance said it was at the instigation of the Germans".

He later said that this was at the instigation of his grandfather who, exasperated at the child's habit of wandering around while practising the violin, bought him a small cello to stop him from "getting in everybody's way".

But "it is the reported instigation of Vietnamese authorities encouraging Vietnamese fishermen to fish in the waters around the Paracels that could lead to conflict", warns Prof Thayer.

One of the key events in that crisis, perhaps its instigation, was the "Llaguno Bridge Massacre," in which 19 people were shot to death in circumstances that remain murky, with Chávez supporters blaming the opposition, and vice versa.

There was the routine Charles Oakley pregame instigation -- "You used to have a mobile home that was stable and you traded it for a Yugo that can't go many places," he said of the Patrick Ewing-less Knicks.

"All the management changes which are taking place in this organization have been at the instigation of the board," Mr. Sedgwick said.

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