Sentence examples for first provoked from inspiring English sources

The outrage that the manacled, blindfolded, jumpsuited figures first provoked has dimmed.

The first provoked a rare BBC strike, which suggests that further economies will not be simple.

It was the very fate that had first provoked Mr. Medina into his campaign against the old agencies.

Wingate first provoked controversy in British-mandated Palestine in 1936-38, when he set up irregular Special Night Squads to ambush "rebel" Arabs on their own ground.

Some 250 people were taken into custody.Mr Putin did not opt to follow the example of neighbouring Belarus, where after a presidential election in December 2010 the security services first provoked violence and then beat everyone up.

Most UK media did not reprint any of the satirical magazine's caricatures of Muhammad or the cartoons from Denmark's Jyllands-Posten, with which Charlie Hebdo first provoked international outrage in 2006.

The victory of Lance Armstrong in this year's Tour de France, his seventh, provoked a mix of envy and admiration.

In the meantime, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, widely blamed for first provoking and then failing to fight the Sunni rebellion, remains at his post.

It is, then, a piece that first provokes and then shames, leaving you with a queasy sense of your own complacency.

First, Brazil seldom start any kind of violent behaviour on the field without first being provoked.

This, for the first time, provoked widespread news coverage, at home and abroad.