Sentence examples for are provoked in from inspiring English sources

Most of my American friends seem helpless in the face of my situation, yet some are provoked in ways that are mysterious to me.

More controversy was provoked in 2006 when the Dutch government awarded those who served in Srebrenica an insignia in "recognition for their behaviour in difficult circumstances".

But when discomfort is provoked in the theater, it has a power that can't be matched by film or television.

Women's football had reached such a zenith that panic was provoked in the FA's corridors of power and an emergency edict duly issued.

To anticipate the firestorm of hysteria sure to be provoked in certain quarters by these findings: there are, of course, many cute African-Americans.

He prompted a firestorm when he said the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington in 2001 had been provoked in part by the United States' closeness to Israel.

The publishers of the paperback edition even include, as an appendix, a list of "Reading group questions" that have been provoked in discussions of the novel.

When, in 1859, a war was provoked in which Piedmont and France were lined up against Austria, Garibaldi was kept clear of the main battlefront, on the Lombard plain, and sent north to the lakes and mountains.

After the 1980 coup, which was provoked in part by violence between leftist and rightist youth organizations, university students were constitutionally barred from political activity and membership in political parties, and the voting age was raised to 21.

He never overacts, even when Patrick is provoked in that bar-fight, and the thoughtfulness that hangs like a cloud over him becomes absolutely central to the story's accelerating moral uncertainty.

"We have to warn ourselves, myself and all you, of the sedition that was defeated in the battle and is being provoked in a certain problem here and another problem there".