Sentence examples for directly provoke from inspiring English sources

Jacobs, who did a mock J-E-T-S chant after breaking off a long run, said he did nothing to directly provoke Ryan.

A second point, subtler still, is that the New Imperialism, while it did not directly provoke World War I, did occasion a transformation of alliances that proved dangerous beyond reckoning once the great powers turned their attention back to Europe.

Of course the inspiration of Mikhail Fokine's choreography for Diaghilev, and the flashy, fleshly costumes of Léon Bakst, didn't directly provoke the couturier Paul Poiret to relinquish the corset, or induce Gabrielle Chanel to simplify a froth of belle epoque evening gown towards the little black dress.

In both straight and gay bars, twinks and women were blamed for instances of aggression such as these that they did not directly provoke.

Some replication timing changes can directly provoke overt genomic instability and induce dramatic mutational changes, such as chromothripsis and kataegis [149,150].

In contrast, we were able to show that even at low salinomycin doses, which did not directly provoke cell death, salinomycin was able to enhance the cellular response to doxorubicin.

It was last June's decision to vote to leave the European Union that directly provoked the timing of this election.

In part, that is because they are so random, never directly provoked by the victims, except in the psychosis of the attacker.

"Unless directly provoked, Sadrists will lay low, because they know the Americans' time in Iraq is coming to an end," he said.

Former U.S. officials emphasized that Trump's national security team could craft a visit that achieves the symbolic message — speaking to the troops, touring Observation Post Ouellette — without directly provoking the North with hostile words.

Israeli military commanders said this sort of coverage has directly provoked attacks against its forces, including the killing of the two soldiers here on Oct. 12. "They call us murderers, and they show pictures of Israeli soldiers shooting Palestinian children, day and night," said Tsionit Kuperwasser, an Israeli colonel who monitors Palestinian news coverage.