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instigating
preposition as in behind
Strong match
Example Sentences
Bell: I will say, I read it first — not to take credit for instigating the partnership, that’s not what I’m doing.
When the Guatemalan government tried to push back, the CIA helped United Fruit out by instigating a coup.
It began referring to the democratically-elected government in Ukraine as the "Kyiv regime" and accused Western nations of instigating the country's 2014 revolution, and of trying to undermine or even destroy Russia.
She has praised major reforms such as the introduction of body-cameras — including under her watch in California — and credited Black Lives Matter with instigating those improvements.
The men instigating the outrage against her, she writes, were Michael Lunsford, executive director of Citizens for a New Louisiana, and Ryan Thames, who runs the Facebook blog Bayou State of Mind.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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