0 the action of causing an event or situation to happen by making a set of actions or a formal process begin: --
1 the act of causing an event or situation to happen by your actions: --
I suspect that it happened through his instigation, because you know the unfortunate influence he has gained over poets, painters, sculptors and, above all, musicians.
The instigation of the sounding artwork by the hosting body and the community itself ensures its relevance and longevity.
They had been drafted, however, at the instigation of a committee that had come into existence to promote diversity in hiring.
The association was founded independently of any statist instigation, solely by ordinary secularist women who have thoroughly internalized statist norms and secularism.
A number of significant causal conditions were identified which contributed to the instigation of role transference.
This lack of resolution on the effects of relocation makes instigation of any national policy on transfer of frail older individuals difficult and potentially problematic.
At his instigation, an interdepartmental committee was established to examine the questions at hand.
If that mediation is crucial to the completion of the work, its instigation is also a political activity in its own right.