Sentence examples for kept provoking from inspiring English sources

This is your family?" I felt nauseated or like crying, but I told him that we were going to talk later, that he should shut up now, that yes, there were probably some criminals there and they were going to kill us if he kept provoking them.

Still, he keeps provoking and rabble-rousing, saying voters are tired of scripted politicians.

The composer is not slowing down, because events keep provoking him to write music.

He keeps provoking, splitting society, something a good politician would never dare do".

Except that here the orchestra keeps trying to play a sinewy, discursive line, and the feisty piano keeps intervening, provoking and sometimes discombobulating the orchestra.

They kept egging on and provoking till it got to a certain point".

Last week, Jonas scored in the 92nd minute costing them a draw that would have kept them safe and provoking a confrontation because Valencia, those dirty cheats, had tried to win when they had nothing to play for – a confrontation that speaks volumes about what's wrong with Spanish football.

When I came up with nothing, Beck simply kept the thought-provoking questions coming.

The questions kept coming: Were you provoked?

He wants to keep them from from provoking Beijing, while encouraging them to invest in what one senior official called "the business of a modern defense".

The administration moved quickly to keep the arrests from provoking the traditional volley of angry denunciations and retaliations, contacting Moscow to indicate the depth of the evidence and its willingness to resolve the situation.