The case of Chen Guangcheng, the legal expert, has provoked international concern, as his defense lawyers have argued that officials in Shandong Province arrested him on baseless charges as punishment for his activism against abuses of population control policies.
This year, China has become a far more aggressive player in this frigid field, experts say, provoking alarm among Western powers.
As the political theorist Luke Bretherton puts it in a review, What comes across time and again in the essays is the hostility 'non-experts' provoke.
Penn, as the world knows, likes a good time; he is also expert at provoking one.
The Great Recession has provoked dueling experts predicting when consumer spending will rebound, but not a reconsideration of how we live in an increasingly connected world of finite resources.
Some officials in Moscow called on President Vladimir V. Putin to take direct control of Chechnya, a move that some experts said could provoke more civil war.
In Washington, the clash provoked concerns among experts on Iraq, who worried that it might lead to an escalation of sectarian violence.
With a panel of four experts, Chilcot's investigation has provoked opposition in Whitehall to the disclosure of key documents relating to the invasion of Iraq, notably records of discussions between Blair and the US president George Bush.
And it is Mr. Bloomberg's handling of the city's bigger, longer-term financial issues that has provoked some disappointment among experts and others.
His evocations of sounds and smells and tactile sensations, especially those provoked by Dominic's expert cooking, are tantalizing.
