Sentence examples for Provoke from inspiring English sources

Farage was the only leader to provoke an emotional reaction, earning laughs and applause from at least two of the male viewers, who had voted Lib Dem and Labour in 2010.

A combination that can provoke interesting reactions to football failure.

A failed lover, unable to provoke affection even in my own wife.

Today, the sole occupant lives off a couple of cows and herbs, yet looks well enough to provoke admiring gazes from female passengers, perhaps dreaming of their own castaway experience.

Local police chief Keith Hutcheson told the press that the woman was yelling "kill me, kill me" and lunging at officers with her knife – and that she later confessed she had been trying to provoke them into shooting her dead.

Meanwhile, Russian media have claimed that snipers were employed by the opposition or western intelligence agencies to provoke Yanukovych's overthrow.

Whether it will provoke any lasting shift in perception or policy is another matter.

Above all, it has made risk possible, with its "right to fail" philosophy; this can provoke embarrassment in a big space, but seems perfectly acceptable in a small one.

This is likely to provoke debate on whether advances in medical and surgical treatments, as well as continuing falls in numbers of people smoking, are being undermined by lifestyles, fuelling big increases in the number of overweight or obese people and those with type 2 diabetes.

For Ibrahim, the government's response was another myopic and selfish attempt to curry favour with religious right-wing elements, which represent a growing electorate base for the ruling party, and another "deliberate attempt to provoke religious tensions to give a pretext to clamp down on civil liberties and justify the continuation of the same old race-based policies of the past".

He complained that a possible government plan to reduce compensation to farmers would "be less than fair and would provoke real anger".