Sentence examples for first provokes from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Sometimes, because he is distorting the rules of a fictional genre, his works at first provoke some resentment.

Repeated cycling first provoked the development of cracks into the coating as well as martensitic transformations (β/L10) within the β-NiAl phase.

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.

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.

One hypothesis is that the more sensitive side was the one where the substance first provoked a reaction, "and there are immune cells that remain in this area and can respond more rapidly," said Dr. Donald Belsito, a dermatologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center