Sentence examples for began provoking from inspiring English sources
A 2002 cease-fire held out promise of a negotiated settlement, but the Tamil Tigers dragged out the talks, and almost immediately after Mr. Rajapaksa's election three years ago, they began provoking his government by ambushing the military.
Many had grown too tired, and some too dispirited, to carry on.Student leaders are eager to consolidate the sympathy they gained on September 28th, when police used tear gas on demonstrators, and on October 3rd, when pro-government thugs began provoking scuffles with protesters.
Lori repeatedly asked Paul why he wouldn't speak and, not receiving an answer, began provoking Paul to "say anything," seeming as committed to eliciting a response as Paul was to not responding.
It wasn't the way Martha C. Nussbaum's work usually began: provoked by an unbidden sense of alarm, unfolding with the sort of restless urgency that preempts sleep and invites unplanned investigation.
A second bench-clearing brawl erupted before the third period began, provoked by the announcement of penalties; a total of 252 penalty minutes were incurred and 10 players were ejected.
If I repeat this often enough, it will cease to be funny, begin provoking irritation but if I then keep repeating it, it will, through a kind of comedy Stockholm Syndrome, suddenly become hilarious all over again.
Whatever the precise tally, the events have begun provoking accusations that Mr. Maliki, who has never been an advocate of having his government's inner workings scrutinized, might leave the posts vacant or stack them with supporters of his party, Dawa.
Yet from the moment he pronounced himself the "imam" of Istanbul, Erdogan began both provoking anxieties and recoiling from the fact that he had provoked them.
She began to provoke him.
Company presidents chasing executive assistants around desks no longer seemed cute: such not so harmless antics began to provoke not laughter but protest and, eventually, laws and lawsuits.
He was sitting at home listening to Benjamin Britten's Serenade For Tenor And Horn, when the music began to provoke terrifying images of death in his mind.
