Sentence examples for attempt to provoke a from inspiring English sources

Some in Belize say the incursions are part of an attempt to provoke a military clash.

In the meeting today, Matthaus explained the most recent outburst as an attempt to provoke a reaction from his teammates.

July describes herself as "consciously feminist", so was it a deliberate attempt to provoke a discussion about women's physicality?

During the trial another inmate stabbed and wounded Ashker's attorney, Philip Cozens, in what Cozens believes was an attempt to provoke a mistrial.

After the lawsuit was filed a year ago, they labeled it a strong-arm attempt to provoke a settlement "by threatening to ruin our reputations and businesses which we have built for over 50 years.

On Thursday, a car bomb exploded just hundreds of yards from the golden-domed Imam Ali mosque in Najaf, killing at least 10 people in what appeared to be an attempt to provoke a bloody cycle of reprisals.

Irvine has said he will attempt to provoke an overhaul of the criteria for promoted clubs when the new heads of agreement between the RFU and Premier League Rugby are drawn up in 2015 for the start of the 2016-17 season.

Alone among the exhibits, this Superman does not interact with visitors, stoically ignoring their attempts to provoke a reaction.

Fellaini was marginally the more significant by virtue of his physical presence and a temperament to resist what appeared to be Leiva's attempts to provoke a red card reaction from him.

After many failed attempts to provoke a reaction by playing recordings of cricket song to them, she realised that they were actually more interested in her own footfalls than in the airborne music of their fellow crickets.

In this situation, the adversary attempts to provoke a dispute by embedding his/her own message.