Sentence examples for provoke at from inspiring English sources

Despite growing dissent in the party's hard-left wing and its activist base, most Syriza leaders, as well as most of the public, oppose an exit because of the economic troubles it would provoke, at least in the short term.

But just as "Take This Job" is establishing its ability to entertain and provoke at least a little thought about perceptions and judgments, the third episode, to be shown next Wednesday, sinks like a stone.

The phylogeographic and substrate specificity patterns detected in analyses of A. viride DArT data (Figures 1 and 2) provoke at least two alternative scenarios of substrate evolution in A. viride: (1) A. viride originated on serpentine and twice colonized limestone habitats or (2) the extant serpentine populations of A. viride are relicts able to survive on a less favorable substrate.

As a result, his images provoke at once fear and delight, sadness and ghoulish mirth.

Burke's current N.H.L. job is rebuilding the Toronto Maple Leafs into another hulking, provoked-at-a-glance outfit.

Her work was the most provoking at the almost all-female 1978 Hayward Annual.

Norris has the rare gift for amusing and provoking at the same time.

There's always something thought-provoking at this contemporary art space, like "Mathematics: A Beautiful Elsewhere," opening Oct. 21.

If, on the other hand, we ask to be challenged, disturbed, or provoked at the same time that we are entertained, Carson must inevitably disappoint us.

And once again it is unclear who is behind the violence, though many Indonesians believe members of the security forces have deliberately provoked at least some of it.

And yet the discovery that in less than three decades our societies have achieved Orwellian levels of surveillance provokes, at most, a wry smile or a resigned shrug.