What is "instigator"

Usage examples of "instigator".

TV preachers and advertising wonks and political speech writers and leadership obfuscators and terrorist instigators and audience-bating gurus will find they all have fewer followers.

Lincoln was certain that the message, however much it ill-used one officer, would get through to the officer class at Antietam, to their instigators and abettors in the Democratic ranks, and to George McClellan himself.

Let me name the foul three here: they were Ronay, Basarab, and Bogdan, the last-named the chief instigator and leader of the plot.

Some instigator up in Howard County was encouraging the homeowners to file ethics complaints against Clay for the botched Hanna settlement.

She is the accomplice of the revolutionaries and the instigator of all the crimes against her father.

In opposition to this it may be contended, that although the public, or the State, are not warranted in authoritatively deciding, for purposes of repression or punishment, that such or such conduct affecting only the interests of the individual is good or bad, they are fully justified in assuming, if they regard it as bad, that its being so or not is at least a disputable question: That, this being supposed, they cannot be acting wrongly in endeavoring to exclude the influence of solicitations which are not disinterested, of instigators who cannot possibly be impartial-who have a direct personal interest on one side, and that side the one which the State believes to be wrong, and who confessedly promote it for personal objects only.

Veteran of a hundred PTA fairs and bake sales, chief instigator of the annual fall antiques show on the green, when Cee-Cee Haines talked, people who were too slow to pull an unobtrusive getaway listened.

He himself has been the instigator of the attack against the broadcast station.

Yet he suspected Lidye as the instigator of that honeyscented trickle.

He was haunted by the fear that if Euander were found guilty he would bring him in as the instigator of that infamous crime.

A forced suffrage is going to put them in office at the Hôtel-de-ville, in the tribunals, in the National Guard, in the sections, and in the various administrations, while they have already elected to the Convention, Marat, Danton, Fabre d'Eglantine, Camille Desmoulins, Manuel, Billaud-Varennes, Panis, Sergent, Collot d'Herbois, Robespierre, Legendre, Osselin, Fréron, David, Robert, Lavicourterie, in short, the instigators, leaders and accomplices of the massacre.

Fulvius was instructed to seek out and take action against the prime instigators of this movement across the Alps.

On the Ides of March, when Sempronius and Claudius entered upon office, the provinces of Sardinia and Histria and the instigators of war in those provinces were only informally discussed.

Robison was an English Mason who discovered through personal experience that the French Masonic lodges—such as the Grand Orient—were Illuminati fronts and were the main instigators of the French Revolution, His whole book is very explicit about how Weishaupt worked: every infiltrated Masonic group would have several levels, like an ordinary Masonic lodge, but as candidates advanced through the various degrees they would be told more about the real purposes of the movement.

We will arm ourselves and proceed at once to the hut of the old woman, who seems to know so much of the matter, and force her to reveal the full particulars, who were the instigators, actors, and also their whereabouts at the present time.