Sentence examples for had been provoking from inspiring English sources

Mosque leaders had been provoking the government for months by abducting alleged prostitutes and police officers, and by threatening music store owners.

In an interview on Saturday in a windowless office behind a clothing store on the main street of the Alawite area, Jabal Mohsen, Mr. Feddah predicted that the fighting would escalate because Sunnis had been provoking Alawites with insults.

Gangsta rap had been provoking concern among law-enforcement authorities in this country since at least 1989, when an F.B.I. public-affairs officer wrote a letter to Ruthless/Priority Records, which distributed records by the group N.W.A. (Niggaz With Attitude).

Mckesson started mentioning police had been provoking protestors and showed officers of the law stopping those walking down the side of the road on his Periscope video when he was suddenly arrested himself.

(They had been provoked by budget cuts).

Robinson said today that White had been provoked.

She was in little doubt that Russia had been provoked.

The public was more charitable, inclined to believe that he had been provoked past reason.

He apologized almost immediately, saying he had been provoked by a baying crowd.

It found that the Georgians fired the first shots, but had been provoked by the Russians.

It was a wonderful goal but the individual brilliance had been provoked by desperation.