Within months of his death, a group of American journalists instigated the George Polk Awards for outstanding radio or television journalism.

Secret vigilante and insurgent groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) instigated extrajudicial assaults and killings to keep power and to discourage freedmen from voting, working and getting educated.

MacLean said President Hugo Banzer was worried because "political groups and traffickers are instigating farmers to confront the army."

Neighbors said the party had been a peaceful affair until a group of outsiders instigated an argument with some of those in attendance.

Authorities now say that the group of white men instigated the fracas.

Broadly there are three types of action a voluntary group can instigate:

However, two rebel groups instigated the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003, and UNMIL was dispatched to oversee the implementation of the ceasefire agreement and continues to assist in national security reform.

The club immediately dismissed the report as "ridiculous", but it emerged over the following few days that a group of senior players had indeed instigated the move, possibly with O'Leary's backing.

After the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Muslim groups instigated uprisings and riots in Aleppo, Homs and Hama and attempted to assassinate Assad in 1980.

One of the first attacks on prominent establishments that these groups instigated was the destruction of the well-known "Café Produktenbörse" in December 1929.