Sentence examples for a provocative position from inspiring English sources

He also hinted that he had staked out a provocative position on the Assembly bill in part to encourage more compromise from the Republican-controlled Senate, which he said had been dismissive of what he sees as the need to overhaul development agencies.

It is a provocative position, but one which appears to enjoy public sympathy.

The magazine campaign, which featured in the London Evening Standard's ES Magazine and Sunday Times Style magazine, featured Fanning wearing a short skirt and holding a bottle of Marc Jacobs perfume in what the advertising regulator deemed a "sexually provocative" position between her legs.

The rapper claimed the intention of his words in Marche were not intended personally, but that he was exercising an equally provocative position to that adopted by the newspaper and its journalists.

The Ugly: The authors took a bold and provocative position on a subject they appear to know little about when they attacked ETFs.

It's also an example of the hypocrisy of the music business, she says, pointing out that while she is scapegoated for her "display of female empowerment through punk rock", the NFL was happy to have cheerleaders "under 16… hips thrusting in the air, legs wide open… in a very sexually provocative position".

He would raise the standing of food writing and change the job of food critic into a respected, powerful and provocative position.

Where the recent wave of zombie splatter comedies has amply demonstrated one basic principle of audience psychology — when things become too scary, they become funny, as anxiety finds an outlet in laughter — Mr. Dante has long worked from the opposite, more provocative position.

France also took the grand, and inevitably provocative, position that at issue was not just the specific case of Iraq but also the general question of American power and of who makes decisions in world affairs: "unilateralist" Americans or a "multilateralist" body?

As Beck spelled out her provocative position, passion turned up her volume.

Now, an abundance of provocative positions maintained by Paul are coming to light in a lengthy report from the Louisville Courier-Journal chronicling a wide range of controversial statements made by the GOP hopeful in public appearances dating back to 1998.