Sentence examples for almost provoked from inspiring English sources

"We almost provoked them to violence," Whalen told me.

Last month reports of camp officials charging migrants €30 for a visa almost provoked a riot.

The Bluecoat Gallery has recreated a lost beautiful work of art which almost provoked a punch-up 140 years ago.

Jayalalitha Jayaram, whose AIADMK party commands 18 votes, almost provoked a collapse by refusing to attend a meeting of the ruling coalition.

The arrival of a few hundred riot police officers almost provoked a stampede from the crowd, even though the police never advanced.

"In the beginning, they almost provoked situations where they lost the ball, in order to win it back again (in dangerous situations).

One of them, salat olivier, almost provokes Proustian tears from a Ukranian-born friend across the table.

The man dances with one woman and steals a kiss, rousing the jealously of the other, until he switches partners, almost provoking the first woman to leave.

Its domestic propaganda describes a reality that does not exist, and it appears bent on almost provoking a war it would certainly lose.

When this prim Englishness begins to tip too far into unintentional parody, almost provoking unseemly cackling on the reader's part, Brookner's sheer quality and singleness of purpose reassert themselves.

Woodfull was felled by a blow to the heart, almost provoking a riot.