instigate
We are carrying on with the search at the President's direct instigation.
The unknown cause of death led to the instigation of a police investigation.
She only took up photography at the instigation of her mother.

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instigation | American Dictionary

instigation
noun[ U ]
us/ˌɪn·stɪˈɡeɪ·ʃən/
the act of causing an event or situation to happen by your actions:
The inquiry was begun at the instigation of Senator Hyde (= he asked for it).

Examples of instigation

instigation
But such restrictions must be applied neutrally-for instance, against such instigations regardless of the moral value of the motivating cause.
The behaviorist scheme has a certain utility for ordering the data on emotion instigation, as well as for ordering neurobehavioral findings and guiding research.
He serves his master and having got the woman in his house, finds her deserting him and claiming divorce at the instigation of a seducer.
There is evidence that upon independence in 1975, anti-witchcraft trials were held again in some parts of the south-east at the instigation of civilians.
So too he might have questioned the responsiveness of the public to his instigation of a pro-claimant lobby.
Emotions allow goal-oriented, that is, flexible behavior instigation by relevant events, instead of mere rigid fixed action patterns.
Emotions may not just equal the instigations for solving adaptational dilemmas.
If that mediation is crucial to the completion of the work, its instigation is also a political activity in its own right.
At his instigation, an interdepartmental committee was established to examine the questions at hand.
This lack of resolution on the effects of relocation makes instigation of any national policy on transfer of frail older individuals difficult and potentially problematic.
A number of significant causal conditions were identified which contributed to the instigation of role transference.
The association was founded independently of any statist instigation, solely by ordinary secularist women who have thoroughly internalized statist norms and secularism.
They had been drafted, however, at the instigation of a committee that had come into existence to promote diversity in hiring.
The instigation of the sounding artwork by the hosting body and the community itself ensures its relevance and longevity.
I suspect that it happened through his instigation, because you know the unfortunate influence he has gained over poets, painters, sculptors and, above all, musicians.
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