instigation

instigate | American Dictionary

instigate
verb[ T ]
us/ˈɪn·stɪˌɡeɪt/
to cause an event or situation to happen by your actions:
Changes in the orientation program were instigated by the new director.

Examples of instigate

instigate
They pursued a two-pronged strategy of stimulating # local protests while instigating international opposition.
Parenting group instigated to look at normal growth and development, sleep and behaviour, nutrition and play.
In some cases the family directly instigates, for others the family serves as a source for inspiration.
This asserts that dreams are instigated by - and express - unconscious, unacceptable wishes.
There have been no prosecutions or investigations of individuals that have precipitated or instigated the violence.
However, blind infants' dependency on others for instigating joint attention does not indicate passivity in their involvement in joint attention.
Rather, the idea of absolute autonomy, via autonomy's association with uniqueness and individualism, has instigated the desirability of contemporary architecture.
Improvement was instigated by the landlord and accepted by a variety of groups within the rural population.
Treatment should be instigated by the multidisciplinary team such that a consensus to management is made.
It contains the potentiality of being changed, it instigates human beings to change it.
Therefore, the probabilities presented here do not represent the probability of instigating a new occurrence of drug resistance.
It all felt very similar to the way that poetry can work its way into the subconscious and instigate musical shapes.
Is it, perhaps, not the target evolutionary psychology needs to overturn to instigate its conceptual revolution?
The environmental objectives of conservation crop research revolve mainly around lowering the intensity of synthetic inputs and reducing activities that instigate topsoil loss.
It also lights the way for the regime theory explanation that mutual interests can instigate compliance with regime norms among members.
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