But Dr. David C. Leach, executive director of the council, said: "There has been an increase in the frequency with which this issue provokes a citation.
A further issue provoking controversy has been the decision to include clauses that would require the use of all tissue used to create lines of stem cells to have the explicit consent of its donor, while another clause would block the use of any tissue from children, even if their parents give consent.
FGM is an issue that provokes strong reactions; the appearance of an 'us and them' mentality is a risk.
We know that providing access to legal terminations would stop women dying, but this remains an issue that provokes huge debate.
Now, once more, Edwin Poots finds himself under pressure on an issue that provokes even more emotion than a sports stadium at a controversial location.
Complicating what is undoubtedly the UK's most profound political crisis since World War Two, Brexit is also an issue that provokes powerful divisions not just between the two main parties, Conservative and Labour, but within them too.
The issue provokes both weariness and hostility from many in Britain; some find it convenient to conflate asylum seekers with economic migrants, and adopt a less than welcoming approach.
The trial is also likely to focus fresh attention on security at the diplomatic compound, an issue that provoked immediate political concern and was the subject of a daylong hearing last year organized by a congressional select committee investigating the attacks.
Jewish spokesmen had demanded an apology from Mr. Möllemann for weeks, and the issue provoked a wide debate about the line between criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism.
His heavy-handed approach to the issue provoked so much anger, a petition signed by 109,000 people was delivered to the White House demanding he be deported back to the UK as a result.
The issue provoked another furor in the 1990s, with the Whitewater investigation of President Bill Clinton.
