Sentence examples for attempts to provoke a from inspiring English sources

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.

This is part of what Dr. Haroro Ingram, a research fellow at Australian National University who has studied extremist propaganda, describes as ISIS' "baiting strategy," where it attempts to provoke a reaction from the outside world.

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.

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.

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.