Sentence examples for intention to provoke from inspiring English sources
"There was certainly no intention to provoke anyone, and certainly not to come along and hurt the vice-president of the United States," Yishai said.
"Well, I don't know if I went into it with the intention to provoke, but I understood that it would be a provocative gesture," he said.
But Wilders denied that it had been his intention to provoke either protest or publicity, even if today's flying visit left time for little more than the press conference and lunch before he flew back to Amsterdam.
"There was certainly no intention to provoke anyone and certainly not to come along and hurt the vice-president of the United States," Yishai told Israel's Channel One television.
And just as the information that smoking kills is offered with the intention to "provoke" the informee to quit, so is the image of a cadaver on a slab offered with the intention of conveying a piece of factual and uncontroversial information — smoking kills.
It was not her intention to provoke.But inevitably, there were comparisons with two British disputes over wearing a cross at work which culminated in a mixed verdict at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in January.
But if your only intention is to provoke, then you've failed".
Having confirmed it was his idea to issue the ultimatum, McNamara said the intention was to provoke a reaction from his players, and he certainly got that.
He condemned it as a "pure terrorist attack" and said "there is no doubt the intention was to provoke an attack, an explosion".
