initiator

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing things to happen
activation
actuation
agent
attribute
attribute something to someone
give rise toidiom
hyperstimulate
hyperstimulation
implement
implementation
launch pad
prompt
put someone to somethingidiom
Pygmalion effect
reactivate
realization
realize
render
spark
spell

Examples of instigator

instigator
This was especially visible in the period of institution-based care between 1920 and 1950, with the training institution and the student association as instigators.
Consequently, substituted or newly coined terms may acquire meanings that were not intended by their instigators.
Yet her father, as the instigator of the disasters that follow, is the more to blame.
Usually those reported to have been instigators of the crimes were adult males over the age of 35.
The instigator must bear the cost of this, the principle being that the destroyer pays (the 'instigator principle').
Women were represented as the victims rather than the instigators of adultery.
Thus, at present, the main instigator of violence in the adolescent dyad and nature of the dyadic interaction remains an empirical question.
The instigator finds an archaeological firm and negotiates the cost and conditions for the work to be carried out.
It failed, but a similar initiative, started in the middle 1980s, was successful, albeit not via the mechanisms devised by its instigators.
None of the above directly implicates the electorate as the principal instigator of illiberalism.
Western media, in particular the 'populist newspapers', are presented as instigators and perpetuators of this negative phenomenon.
Their 'demonstration' was quickly suppressed and an investigation was launched to find the supposed instigators.
The physician instigators of strikes have an obligation to consider the potential effects of their actions.
It is clear that the secretariat was the chief instigator in this process, its members working tirelessly behind the scenes to bring together opposing views.
Under (1a) for one's heart to undertake an activity - as an instigator or agent - is to desire to do that activity without actually doing it.
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