Sentence examples for intent to provoke from inspiring English sources
The spectators were arrested around the time the race ended at the Sepang International Circuit on Sunday and were being investigated for "intentional insult with intent to provoke a breach of the peace" and public indecency, state news agency Bernama quoted police saying on Monday.
The reader in Montana, Dec. 18: Recent events caused me to write the very nasty e-mail that you received, with the intent to provoke you into an argument so I could "vent" my feelings and make me feel better at your expense.
He remains behind bars on charges of aggravated battery, resisting a police officer, and battery with intent to provoke or insult, TribLocal reported.
At the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in 1997, Walus and Clive Derby-Lewis, the other man sentenced for Hani's murder, admitted their intent: to provoke a race war and derail a negotiation process that would inevitably lead to the end of white minority rule.
At the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in 1997, Walus and former politician Clive Derby-Lewis, the other man sentenced for Hani's murder, admitted their intent: to provoke a race war and derail a negotiation process that would inevitably lead to the end of white minority rule.
If your intent was to provoke revulsion, horror, shock, anger and heartache, then you succeeded.
Fendi's intent is to provoke spectators by using recognizable images, music and spoken word in an unexpected fashion.
Instead, the sole intent is to provoke disagreement and partisan perspective - with the anchor used solely to egg on disagreement.
Although this overview touched upon only past practices, its intent was to provoke both scientists and regulators to consider how their respective disciplines might influence one another and how they might influence the development of a model that integrates both single- and multiple-chemical approaches.
The intent is not to provoke, but to testify.
Now, here is a scandal about which it is worth getting agitated, even a Booker Prize chairman more intent on seeking to provoke than in dignifying his role as an arbiter of literary taste.
