Sentence examples for provocation for a from inspiring English sources

"There could be more stimulus if April turns out to be a new trend, but by itself it's no provocation for a quick ease".

When one considers the merciless criticism that has to be endured by players and officials for failure at national level, there is some provocation for a "win at all costs" approach.

And Bourgeois and Gober were there ready to revitalize the Uncanny as both a motivation for a new Surrealist-styled art and as the instrument of provocation for a new generation of activist artists.

And the immediate provocations for a war may in any case bear little relation to its deep-seated causes.

Philip Roth, who has just turned eighty, has been writing novels, stories, essays, autobiographical books, and other species of cultural provocation for over half a century now.

Tradition is presented as a resource and a provocation for thinking and creativity: whereas sameness is the currency of a conservative conception of tradition, instability, questions and the challenge of otherness are the drivers of Gadamer's more dialogical concept of tradition.

The question is, which friends? Payton asks her investigators to hack into the couples' Facebook accounts; there, she has them post a wanted ad — a provocation for the fugitives' "circle of trust".

"I am not so sure that even classic films really live on now – and that means ultimately that maybe film is really an entertainment, or a provocation, just for a specific time".

We reasoned therefore, that the standard manoeuvre was unlikely to be an adequate provocation for cough headache; coughing induces a particularly marked CSF pressure increase [11 13], with intra-abdominal pressures exceeding 100 cm H2O [14].

The left is now pushing an old point with what they are portraying as an urgent new twist: that the settlements are an obstacle to peace and a provocation for the present violence.

So the left is pushing an old point with what they are portraying as an urgent new twist: that the settlements are an obstacle to peace and a provocation for the present violence.