incitar
arouse ; fuel ; prompt ; spur ; spur on ; abet ; exhort ; instigate ; tease ; egg on ; emplace ; twit ; taunt ; tantalise [tantalize, -USA] ; set off ; goad ; incite ; razz.
The appearance of this volume aroused such a furor within and without the British Museum that further publication of the catalog was suspended.
This is in line with recent trends in the historical sciences generally fuelled by the feeling that in the past historians did not pay enough attention to what is, after all, the majority of humanity.
An earlier leakage had prompted library staff to make arrangements with a nearby firm of book conservation specialists in the event of a further disaster.
Spurred by press comments on dumping of withdrawn library books in rubbish skips, Birkerd Library requested the Ministry of Culture's permission to sell withdrawn materials.
The paper-makers, spurred on by the urgent need to increase their supply of raw material, eventually mastered the new technique.
This article questions the pricing policies of some publishers for journals suggesting that librarians have inadvertently aided and abetted them in some cases.
As he began to speak, she exhorted herself to pay close attention, not to let herself be so distracted by the earlier event that her mind would be off in some obscure cavern of her soul.
The first mass removal of material was instigated by the trade unions and although admitted in 1932 to have been a mistake, the purges proved difficult to stop.
I like to be considered one of the team, to joke with and tease the employee but that sure creates a problem when I have to discipline, correct, or fire an employee.
In the novel, residents of the drought-plagued hamlet of Champaner, egged on by a salt-of-the-earth hothead leader, recklessly accept a sporting challenge thrown down by the commander of the local British troops.
For them musical performance emplaces and embodies community identities in very specific ways.
Don't be tempted into twitting me with the past knowledge that you have of me, because it is identical with the past knowledge that I have of you, and in twitting me, you twit yourself.
The writer describes how he spent his school days avoiding bullies who taunted him because he was a dancer.
He may have wished to tease and tantalize his readers by insoluble problems.
The dollar has been losing value, weakening its status as the world's major currency and setting off jitters in the international financial system.
Al Qaeda will goad us into war with Iran because it serves their own interests.
It is illegal to operate websites inciting terrorism under the Terrorism Act.
I used to razz her about her fear of food, an unfortunate remnant of her history as a model.
incitar a
sting into
As a result of the NCC review, several library authorities were stung into an examination of the relevance of their information services.
incitar a Alguien a hacer Algo
talk + Nombre + into
put up to it
After jazzing up her appearance with a new blonde hairdo, she turns up in his office and talks him into taking her out for a meal.
In May 2009, both her attacker and the man who put him up to it were gaoled for life.
incitar a Alguien a la acción
stir + Nombre + into action
The role of the organizer is to stir people into action around the things that are important to them.
incitar camorra
rustle up + trouble
Notorious outlaws, desperadoes, and gunslingers rustled up trouble in town after town but when the gold disappeared they all left.
incitar controversia
arouse + controversy
When published, the ninety-one rules covering author and title headings and description aroused great controversy.
incitar el odio
incite + hatred
The Government is to make it a crime to incite hatred because of a person's sexual orientation.
incitar escándalo
arouse + furor
The appearance of this volume aroused such a furor within and without the British Museum that further publication of the catalog was suspended.
incitar hostilidad
arouse + hostility
Users do not find this intolerable, so it may be that we tend to exaggerate the hostility that would be aroused by a similar approach in library catalogues.
incitar la curiosidad
provoke + curiosity
But in the country the processes of printing always provoke such lively curiosity that the customers preferred to go in by a glazed door set in the shop-front and giving onto the street.
incitar la violencia
incite + violence
France has expelled a Muslim preacher for making public speeches in a mosque near Paris inciting violence against the West.
incitar los instintos más bajos
appeal to + Posesivo + baser instincts
Something is prurient if it focuses attention on sex not in an artistic way or to teach something, but purely to appeal to your baser instincts.
incitar polémica
rattle + Posesivo + cage
The author maintains that his poem makes an attempt to rattle the cage and is a gesture toward revolt, a call to abandon any vision of human life that does not embrace the sexual universe.
incitar + Posesivo + curiosidad
excite + Posesivo + curiosity
This software is still in its infancy, but its launch excited the curiosity of many users, and produced a spin-off in the form of increased usage of the other two databases.
incitar una respuesta
provoke + response
A book may also of course provoke responses based primarily on the text itself rather than on intrusions from our personal and reading histories.
preguntas para incitar el debate
discussion question
The stories are accompanied by learning activities and discussion questions for students and are arranged under the headings of bear, mountain goat and deer, and seal and sea lion.
que incita a la reflexión
provocative of
After three hours' talk we had not got beyond the third incident in the story - so many, so various, and so provocative of further thoughts and ideas, were the responses reported as the text was read aloud.
