Sentence examples for issue provoked from inspiring English sources

His parliamentary colleagues said the prisoner abuse issue provoked angry debate in Parliament on Thursday.

His efforts to put off the issue provoked his colleagues, with Justice Blackmun perhaps the harshest critic.

As a recent rehearsal showed, the young cast is adept at portraying the passions the issue provoked.

The issue provoked one of the laugh lines at the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents Associationn on Saturday night.

Mr. Karzai's handling of the amnesty issue provoked anger among members of the Northern Alliance, which has battled the Taliban for six years.

Trivial as it sounded, the issue provoked furious protests and even street demonstrations by workers in various industries, including duty-free retailers, airlines and liquor companies.

But Dr. David C. Leach, executive director of the council, said: "There has been an increase in the frequency with which this issue provokes a citation.

The issue provokes both weariness and hostility from many in Britain; some find it convenient to conflate asylum seekers with economic migrants, and adopt a less than welcoming approach.

A further issue provoking controversy has been the decision to include clauses that would require the use of all tissue used to create lines of stem cells to have the explicit consent of its donor, while another clause would block the use of any tissue from children, even if their parents give consent.

The radicals aggressively pushed the issue, provoking Lincoln to comment: "Stevens, Sumner and [Massachusetts Senator Henry] Wilson simply haunt me with their importunities for a Proclamation of Emancipation.

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