Verb (used without object) : to agitate for the repeal of a tax.    From Dictionary.com. 

At what point will the torture-loving right begin agitating for those methods to be applied to domestic law enforcement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Real Torture Debate] Reference

Over the past decade, when big investors begin agitating in this way, share buybacks have soon followed, the report adds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now Is The Time To Buy Stocks, Argues A Bullish Merrill Lynch] Reference

But it only matters if the people doing the agitating are his constituents.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference

Netanyahu disavowed any role in agitating him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Poll: Majority of Israelis find Obama ‘fair’ or ‘friendly.’] Reference

The officer then accused the receptionist of "agitating" the student.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference

The boarding school pupil said it was at a distance of 10m, and they walked away slowly to avoid "agitating" it.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Politicians on Capitol Hill are also agitating against the cuts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Green Fighter] Reference

The first agitating question upon marriage is that of residence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference

Within a minute, the delivery team was agitating around Chrystèle.    From Wordnik.com.  [French for Birth] Reference

The People's Liberation Army has begun agitating for bigger budgets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Broken Dreams] Reference

Politicians on Capitol Hill are also agitating against the carbon cuts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regulate, Baby, Regulate] Reference

When she heard pronounced this name, so deeply agitating her, Madame de.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

That hasn't stopped him from agitating against Turkey or his benefactors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tolerating The Intolerable] Reference

And increasingly, the voices agitating at Toyota have an American accent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toyota Triumphs] Reference

Once he did, though, he flipped, and started agitating to get them a deal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louie And The Lovers: The Slow 'Rise' Of A Lost Treasure] Reference

But after Barksdale, the president was agitating to come back to Washington.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day That Changed America] Reference

United's flight attendants, as well as its mechanics, are agitating for a raise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Air War] Reference

A farm cat who hooks up with the labor agitating mouse and a blind preacher toad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cooder's 'Buddy' Revives Tales of a Bygone America] Reference

I was among the early student leaders in the 1960s who were agitating for these very changes.    From Wordnik.com.  ['This Is A Real Renaissance'] Reference

In May 1966 I discovered that my friend was secretly agitating to replace me as SNCC chairman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Odyssey Of A Passionate Radical] Reference

A spirit of dire vengeance was agitating his heart, the results of which we are soon to observe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference

I concluded that more was agitating them than the reverse-Robin Hood unfairness of the transaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disembodied Money] Reference

That's right -- almost none of the consumers agitating for a consumer option will be eligible for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trigger Unhappy] Reference

Yeah, I understand that employees and venture capitalists are agitating to have a stock they can sell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opinion: Going Public? Bad Idea.] Reference

INSKEEP: Well, that means that he's older than you were when you first started agitating to play the piano.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simone Dinnerstein: Variations on a Career] Reference

This is what the Americans and British have been calling for, agitating for, and banking all their hopes on.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Compassionate Colonialism'] Reference

It seems there were none in the mansion meeting of May 18, though reform advocates had been agitating about the case.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Bush Made The Call] Reference

Local potentates in Siberia have also started agitating for much greater autonomy from Moscow, if not actual statehood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boris's Bet: Russian Roulette?] Reference

I think at some point they realized that their presence was agitating me, so they left me barricaded in the room, alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Forest of the Snake People (Part 1)] Reference

And it could be an important step, he says, to greater currency flexibility, something for which the U.S. has been agitating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics, or Not, Beijing Appears More Flexible on Yuan] Reference

That is why virtually all the personalities and organizations agitating for war are strongly identified with the Israeli right.    From Wordnik.com.  [MJ Rosenberg: Pro-Bombing Iran Is Anti-Israel] Reference

In sharp contrast, China has been systematically executing Islamic separatists agitating in Xinjiang for the creation of Turkistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters] Reference

In any case, what follows is less an argument for a bailout as it is an argument against those agitating for a rapid Chapter 11 filing.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Defense of Detroit] Reference

No. We have some other organizations of this nature, and they keep advocating, propagating, agitating, if you may, and nothing happens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under Strain] Reference

With his situation souring from bad to dire, his people concluded that he could wait no longer and began agitating for a housecleaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [A SILVER BULLET] Reference

The mortar was barely dry on its first public buildings when people started agitating for it to be uprooted and plopped down elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington's Manifest Destiny in the 19th century was to stay put] Reference

His first experience of advocacy was in agitating to improve the dismal conditions prevailing in public housing in minority neighborhoods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reinvention of the Reverend] Reference