We want to create a stir.

It's a way to get people's attention. We want this to create a stir. We are all fed up of living in this urban chaos. Doing battle with other drivers each day is a tremendous waste of energy and it generates rage in people.

We used Iacocca to create a bit of a stir. It worked out nicely.

We didn't want to create a stir, ... so we drove up to the edge of the crowd where we could get a view and sat there and waited.

You can imagine what kind of stir it would create if we created a situation that was gonna be unsafe for visitors. So that's a ridiculous allegation as far as I'm concerned.

By breaking his own promises, Chen is attempting to stir up the secessionist sentiments in Taiwan and create confrontations between different groups of people in the island, as well as to provoke the mainland and strain the cross-Straits relations.