Sentence examples for constantly provoked from inspiring English sources

The secular authorities of the Kingdom of Naples and of the Venetian republic constantly provoked Clement's remonstration in violating ecclesiastical rights, but he never retaliated.

He said he was constantly provoked by prison staff, and sometimes assaulted, including one incident in which he was handcuffed and had his head smashed into a window by guards.

He constantly provokes and challenges, as he did in his lifetime.

Impotent exhibitionists, in Fanon's sense, these white intruders are at once predatory and fearful, constantly supplicating an assumed black "rage" that they themselves constantly provoke.

Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, said: "Just as Labour doesn't win when it seeks conflict with business, I don't see how constantly provoking and picking fights with the unions helps the UK's productivity problem".

The weight of literature, poetry and film inspired by this most unlikely of muses is testament to its status as the subject that defies speech, but constantly provokes attempts at articulation.

And Sanders supporters sensed this weakness, constantly provoking Wasserman Schultz and going after her by name. .

Your attention needs to focus on the one/ones that constantly provoke and invoke, react and attack.

If these groups -- which oppose any peace with Israel -- could operate under the protection of an Iranian nuclear umbrella, they would constantly provoke retaliatory and preventive military actions.

One soldier claimed the Ukrainians were using the ceasefire to acquire more weapons and build new fortifications, but that ultimately it wouldn't make a difference: "They are constantly provoking us but there's just one thing they haven't understood, this is our land and we'll be here until the end.

The duchess is a figure who has always provoked extreme reactions, and the brilliance of Adès and Hensher's opera lies in the way it constantly challenges its audience to consider what they think of her.