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Example sentences for: instigated

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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 pharaohs of the 18th Dynasty instigated many important reforms.
The star-struck Lewinsky appears to have instigated a relationship with Clinton.
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.)
To counter Protestantism the Catholic Spanish instigated the vicious and cruel force of Inquisition.