instigation

How To Use instigation In A Sentence

• At Merlin's instigation, Arthur founds the Fellowship of the Round Table.
• Some tutors attempt the _suaviter in modo_, my schoolmaster preferred the _fortiter in re_; and, as the boatswain said, by the "instigation" of a large knotted stick, he drove knowledge into our skulls as a caulker drives oakum into the seams of Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
• Finally, I have never seen evidence of extremist instigation in schools we sponsor.
• This they did later, either on account of the French fishermen or at the instigation of the Dutch, and a year's respite was granted.
• He recalled the instigation of the series in an interview with the Payson Roundup about six years ago. Payson Roundup stories
• As you are undoubtedly aware, the sad old electrical engineering model was deliberately crippled by Lorentz (who deliberately symmetrized Heaviside's original equations at the instigation of the infamous J.P. Morgan) in 1892, prior to the very birth of electrical engineering itself. ZPEnergy.com
• In Brown's late paintings and in the work Gillespie has been making in recent years, symbols are used less for confession and purgation than for spiritual instigation and invocation.
• At Kukhar's instigation he joined the restaurant as an apprentice chef.
• He said money had been provided through the generosity of friends but they may no longer be prepared to do so after their names appeared in newspapers on the "instigation" of the wife. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
• In 1666, at Colbert's instigation, the Académie Royale des Sciences was founded.