Winnie Byanyima

My own life values were shaped in great part by my mother, who instigated women's clubs in my village. Women were able to organize and stand together. What inspired me most about their work was the power it gave them to assert their rights and the rights of their daughters, be it education or property inheritance.

Ugandan Politician

Kiku Sharda

I am not at all justifying Kapil's abusive behavior. I am only trying to say that when you know the person is depressed, you are still publishing negative stories about him and trying to break him. Why are you instigating him when you know his mental state? It looks as though people have an agenda.

Indian Comedian

Nana Patekar

We live in a society where you may not like everything that is happening around you. However, just because you don't like it doesn't mean it is wrong. Similarly, just because you dislike something, you don't have to keep talking about it or instigating people against it.

Indian Actor

Yvette Mimieux

Most parts for women have them reacting to something a man has done. Women never instigate any action; they only react it. We women have become accustomed to doing that.

American Actress

Kat Edmonson

Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.

American Musician

Rick Stein

Divorce is horrible, no matter who instigates it. It's very traumatic.

English Chef

Tertullian

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.

Roman Author

G-Dragon

I want to continuously instigate, whatever it may be.

South Korean Musician

Neha Bhasin

In the Bigg Boss house a lot of instigation happens.

Indian Singer

Asrani

BJP only knows how to instigate to disintegrate.

Instigate implies a subtle influence, nudging someone towards an action without force.

Gentle Persuasion

It often carries a sneaky or slightly negative tone, as if suggesting a covert agenda.

Sneaky Connotation

Used to indicate peer pressure or the act of encouraging someone to make a certain choice.

Peer Influence

Focuses on the act of initiating, usually an event or sequence of events, particularly negative ones.

Initiate Action

Often used when someone or something is the initial spark that sets off a bigger event. 

First Spark

A key point is that 'instigate' implies causation but does not always mean direct involvement.

Causation Implication

In legal contexts, it refers to introducing something for consideration, especially evidence or arguments.

Legal Argument

Used in formal situations like court or debates, where rigorous justification is necessary.

Formal Presentation

 that name he's the only colored male cheetah you may have seen there was one cheetah with a collar around his neck and so they said to him I've seen him being bullied quite a bit and I'm saying this the last time the last time I spend some time with these boys there was one cheetah that was definitely Keenan and kept instigating the hunts there's the

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 It's called reconstructed memories. It happens to us in all the aspects of our life, all the time. It was those two considerations, among others -- reconstructed memory, the fact about the eyewitness fallibility -- that was part of the instigation for a group of appeal attorneys

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 connected basically by a website, and we have a staff of three. The fact that nobody told us we couldn't do it, we did it. And so there's something to be said about naïveté. So seven years later, we've developed so that we've got advocacy, instigation and implementation.

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 And this leads to point militarization. Dictators survive by instigating fear, and they use the military to suppress dissident voices, even though they try to give the impression that the military is to protect the nation. And they suppress institutions and destroy them

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 have observed that normally Omega wolves instigate play in an effort to diffuse pack tension maitake was good at this and when she died the other wolves lost the spirit to play another indication of their change behavior is the way they

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 "And again, she provided her particular kind of support to Marc Antony." "Why does that matter? Why doesn't anyone seem to care about Caesar or Antony's countless other affairs? Why do we assume she instigated the relationships?

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 or because it's very charismatic in fact most of the time the species chooses you and they choose you by instigating passion and by posing incredible questions and fascinating challenges that you really want to getting engaged

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 and I was very pleased to see her playing and showing play faces baby because not only is she receiving play but she's instigating play I think we'd all like this job being her play well

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 Through what means can men both instigate and lead a gender reckoning? First, we must tell the truth. We must tell the truth.

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 without his inspiration in his instigation I was engaged I was never afraid

Instigate

Gentle Persuasion

Sneaky Connotation

Peer Influence

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