Sentence examples for provocative positions from inspiring English sources

Her provocative positions have lent kindling to an intensifying debate about how best to teach writing in the digital era.

With his stentorian voice and tall, athletic build, Mr. Townsend found himself a hit with groups eager for a speaker willing to take provocative positions on local controversies.

"They were certainly posed in provocative positions," said Chief Thomas Russo of the Montclair Police Department, which arrested her on Feb. 3 when she came to pick up the photographs at a local film processing shop.

Photographs of the abuse, which have been shown around the world and have created a crisis for the Bush administration, show American soldiers standing over Iraqi inmates, some of them naked and in sexually provocative positions.

But the movement's influence on Congressional Republicans — its willingness to press its principles right up to the brink of a government shutdown, make life difficult for its own party's leaders and take provocative positions on issues like Medicare — have also sparked a countermovement from the left focused on income inequality, and provided Mr. Obama another chance to occupy the center.

Faced with what he always knew would be a tough race against Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination and now the challenge of convincing his party that he is also a better alternative than Senator Barack Obama, Mr. Edwards is trying to muscle his way past them and the rest of the field, in part by staking out early and provocative positions on the big issues.

He would raise the standing of food writing and change the job of food critic into a respected, powerful and provocative position.

The rapper claimed the intention of his words in Marche were not intended personally, but that he was exercising an equally provocative position to that adopted by the newspaper and its journalists.

France also took the grand, and inevitably provocative, position that at issue was not just the specific case of Iraq but also the general question of American power and of who makes decisions in world affairs: "unilateralist" Americans or a "multilateralist" body?

Where the recent wave of zombie splatter comedies has amply demonstrated one basic principle of audience psychology — when things become too scary, they become funny, as anxiety finds an outlet in laughter — Mr. Dante has long worked from the opposite, more provocative position.

He also hinted that he had staked out a provocative position on the Assembly bill in part to encourage more compromise from the Republican-controlled Senate, which he said had been dismissive of what he sees as the need to overhaul development agencies.