Sentence examples for generally provokes from inspiring English sources

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One was, 'What is that?' The second one was, 'Who is that?' and the other was, 'I dunno what the fuck that is but I don't like it.'" This is not the reaction that the actual, for-real Jared Leto generally provokes.

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Asking capitalists for way more than is needed might raise eyebrows, but it doesn't generally provoke the sort of outrage Trump's so-called immigration policy has evinced among Americans.

"We have said on many occasions that any steps that would whip up tension at the disengagement line and generally provoke an already uneasy situation will only further distance us from settling this intra-Ukrainian issue," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday.

Waiting generally provoked anxiety; one participant said this could have been reduced by information about how long the clinic appointment was likely to take: Karen: The waiting was the worst…the whole thing was bad, but the worst bit was having to wait and not knowing how long I was waiting for.

So what is it about cyclists generally that provokes so much anger?

Disruptive behaviours in traditional collaborative web-based environments such as forums and lists include spam (unsolicited messages), flaming (messages that attack others), baiting (an inside joke in which participants are solicited to post responses that are humorous to others) and trolling (messages that contain false responses to an inquiry, generally to provoke an argument) [ 9].

It is the path that generally tends to provoke the most resistance, since we tend to attract and marry people who are our counterparts and complements.

The echoes that creative work provokes are generally too quiet and internal to be measured by indexes like sales figures.

Houellebecq, meanwhile, claims at times to draw strength from the outrage he provokes, though generally he believes that "what I am going through is something similar to what medieval criminals did when they were pilloried… head imprisoned in a wooden frame… and any passer-by could slap him in the face, spit at him or worse".

It is generally accepted that obesity provokes a state of chronic inflammation resulting in metabolic dysfunction and impaired immunity (Gregor and Hotamisligil, 2011).

And although some of it concerned consolidating bonuses, the "going rate" concerns of the treasury for wage rates more generally were no doubt provoked by the big-sounding increases.

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