Sentence examples for help provoke from inspiring English sources

So he enlisted a colleague to help provoke a public discussion.

Beginning in August, the letter said, volunteers would be needed to help provoke mass, nonviolent arrests at the White House.

Carroll hopes that the pope will help provoke a shift in attitudes among politicians and ordinary people who have hardline stances on immigration.

but we do have our bodies". Beginning in August, the letter said, volunteers would be needed to help provoke mass, nonviolent arrests at the White House.

He's open to these deals in Season 2. "If the idea is to inspire an interesting debate over capitalism, I actually think (depending on how we use it) it can help provoke that conversation even more," he said.

There is much talk here of the Seventh Battalion of the Yugoslav Army, some 700 men who seem more like paramilitaries and who, it is thought, could help provoke civil strife, providing a pretext for the overthrow of Mr. Djukanovic without bringing about an overt Western military response.

He was, after all, no stranger to getting in trouble with the authorities himself, and he couldn't help provoking them.

But in 1997 he lost a match to Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer built by I.B.M. Afterward, he accused the computer of getting unfair human help, provoking counteraccusations from members of the snippy chess fraternity, who complained that he had an unsportsmanlike attitude.

She regards the role of Grete as one of the richest she ever played: an ambitious and smart young woman who has long studied the artist she is interviewing, but who can't help provoking him with questions that sound accusatory, possibly even offensive.

The first helped provoke political revolutions in America and France.

The pursuit of small pleasures helps provoke social sanity.