Sentence examples for once provoked from inspiring English sources

Once provoked, Bill is a one-man demolition derby.

As a rookie he once provoked Senna, at the time the champion, to take a swing at him.

During the 19th century, the virile Arab and Turk who had once provoked paranoia in Christendom morphed into the sick man of Europe – the will-less Muselmann.

Every unspoken Holocaust story is like a dormant volcano -- once provoked or disturbed, it can erupt and shatter whatever domestic tranquillity existed before.

And lawlessness, once provoked, is hard to dispel.Relations between big companies and impoverished locals are always tricky, but there are ways of reducing the risk that they may turn bloody.

"Found at the Aldrich" at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in nearby Ridgefield, Conn., highlights the practice in the work of six artists, though the outrage it once provoked now seems distant.

Raising the issue of immigration at once provokes accusations of racism; but ignoring it goes down poorly with core supporters, for most of whom it is deeply worrying.

He is also a polarizing figure in the Satmar sect of Hasidic Jews and was an instigator in a bitter, long-running dynastic struggle between two Satmar factions — even once provoking a brawl in a Brooklyn synagogue.

Jackson is also shown as a man of many moods, once provoking a fistfight with an Oakland A's teammate, Mike Epstein, over some free tickets, then sidling up to him on the team plane, saying, "It bothers me that you don't like me".

She recalls once provoking mum into dispensing a swift head clip, followed by hours of maternal remorse that my sister manipulated as only a girl can.

Where once skin provoked shudders, so now many merely shrug.