The phrase "it's provoking" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to indicate that something is causing frustration, irritation, or annoyance. Example: "I found his constant interruptions during the meeting to be quite provoking."
In Germany, the encroachment of "non-standard employment relationships" in casual, contract, labour hire or other insecure arrangements has risen to a total of 20% across its mainly service-based economy, and it's provoking a national discussion about the social impacts of insecure work.
If it's provoking the crowd into looking for something that's not there, it should be stopped.
Certainly, it's provoking debate on the other side of the world, if an article I was reading in the Sydney Morning Herald is anything to go by.
According to people familiar with the situation, it's provoking opposition among some Dems on the House "gang of seven," who fear it could give Republicans in the "gang" an excuse to walk away from an emerging compromise that may be the best hope for anything approaching a comprehensive bill in the House.
It's a delightful book and it's provoking some interesting reflections on land art.
Unfortunately, the only stimulus that provokes any real action--small though it may be--is from the outside, and it's provoking only a very weak internal response.
It's provoked a scandal in the Doha Film Commission, a big source of film finance.
While you would think that this would earn him admiration, it's provoked all sorts of naysaying instead.
"I think it's provoked by the overwhelming authority that science has been able to accumulate," Dr. Levine said.
It's provoked outrage but such measures are common, writes Justin Parkinson.
And to some degree it has, but to a greater degree it's provoked a huge wave of defensive reaction, and #Gamergate is one manifestation of that.
