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Downtown, on Hollis Street, Province House, a dignified Georgian stone building (1819), boasts Canada’s oldest legislative assembly, instigated by New England Loyalists.
Tanenhaus accuses Chambers of having inadvertently instigated McCarthyism, and "shows us Chambers' paranoia, his introversion, his sententiousness" (Stephen Koch, the Wall Street Journal ). (Also, see Slate's mildly critical review by Ann Douglas.)
Between 1992 and 1995, he looked into charges that Bush administration officials instigated an improper search of Bill Clinton's passport files during the 1992 campaign.
The war he instigated provoked U.N. sanctions that wrecked the Serbian economy.
The star-struck Lewinsky appears to have instigated a relationship with Clinton.