Meanings of chief instigator in English

The chief instigator of the trouble was the parish priest.

She was the chief instigator of this intended rebellion.

He puts the ex-troubadour Bishop of Marseilles, chief instigator of the horrors of Provence, in paradise.

The chief instigator and adviser of Alexis in this affair was a man named Alexander Kikin.

The merchant, anxious to acquit Maslova, insisted that Botchkova was the chief instigator of it all.

Bonus five-point question on last week's University Challenge: Robert Catesby was the chief instigator of which abortive rebellion of the early 17th century?

So far as all this is concerned the facts are generally held to point to Germany as the chief instigator of the war.

Even the chief instigator disruption, EFF leader Julius Malema, managed his temperament and engaged the president on the mistakes he made in his speech.

But Hitler's name justifiably stands for all time as that of the chief instigator of the most profound collapse of civilization in modern times.

Shamelessness, they hold, treads close on the heels of ingratitude, and thus ingratitude is the ringleader and chief instigator to every kind of baseness.

He was one of the most determined supporters of the slave-trade, and the chief instigator of the first attack on the boats of the squadron.

Fairfax Media is reporting David Warner was the chief instigator in the decision to tamper with the ball and Smith went along with the idea.

Now we Huguenots held, and still hold, Henri de Guise to have been a chief instigator of the event of St. Bartholomew's Night, in 1572.

Who are the chief instigators to what you call vice and folly?

The fatty acids carried on albumin may be the chief instigators of tubulointerstitial injury in protein-overload proteinuria.

The coach said it would be impossible to work in a hostile environment and pegged Ultras as the chief instigators.