The customers have taken increasingly desperate measures to provoke action from regulators and federal authorities.
"We need targets that provoke action on behalf of the students, not ones that condone the status quo".
"We're not after two-minutes of heartbreak in a plea for some quick-fix cash," says Ctrl.Alt.Shift, "we are looking for ideas that provoke action".
The one maybe-bright spot in this week-long Watson scandal is that clearly vitriolic sexism is finally seen as an outrage, and it might finally provoke action.
"They provoke action, the desire to be on top," he argues.Sally Osberg, president and chief executive of the Skoll Foundation, the forum's organiser, says that the tool will help entrepreneurs, policy makers and the private sector make better decisions to help the world's poor.
Media-dubbed "poverty porn" adverts – the small child, tear running down one cheek, distended belly, flies on their face and body – have been used in the past to elicit emotions, whether sympathy, empathy, anger or outrage to provoke action such as a donation or signing a petition.
But when you say things together, maybe the message will be heard and hopefully will provoke action.
What started as a local grassroots effort to increase environmental awareness and provoke action from our political leaders has not only led to significant policy changes, but has also developed into an international celebration of our planet.
Lethargy was seen as a sign of severe illness and might provoke action outside the home.
We used the Paradigm Model to identify context, defined as a set of conditions in which problems or situations arise that provoke action, interaction and emotion ('process') [ 22].
The continued reliance on extra-legal avenues to provoke action from the government not only means that democratic channels are ignored at the local level, but it also suggests that the "client-oriented" strategy of the water reform Law is not necessarily streamlining accountability to the most vulnerable and least-powerful.
