Sentence examples for were inciting from inspiring English sources

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were inciting

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To rouse, stir up or excite.

  • The judge was told by the accused that his friends had to incite him to commit the crime.

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The army's chief of staff suggested that the dissenters were inciting rebellion.

He blamed the morning's violence on the Brotherhood — he believed that its leaders were inciting aggression.

The police also closed a television station managed by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, saying reporters were inciting a riot.

But O'Reilly focused his ire on Black Lives Matter protesters, who he said were inciting violence against police.

He said the problem was only "a few advisers" to Mr. Arafat who were "inciting him all the time against Islamic organizations".

In interviews and statements, the government has increasingly spread an image that foreigners were inciting the uprising, a refrain echoed in the streets.

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But you know they were incited to do that".

"Young people were incited by his teaching, and they lost their lives".

Two of the recent incidents were incited by a violation of baseball's code of etiquette.

Who is inciting you?

They are inciting people to riot.

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