Sentence examples for provoke better from inspiring English sources

There had been hopes Swansea's Ashley Williams would have long since arrived to offer O'Shea and Brown competition but, when Williams penned a new contract in south Wales, it became apparent he had merely been using north-east interest to provoke better terms from his current employers.

However, titanium implants, which have a thinner layer of bone on their surface 4 weeks after the operation, may provoke better bone formation after that time point, while bone remodeling may be induced at a slower pace.

Combination treatments provoked better growth of L. luteus than the respective individual strains, while individual inoculation treatments were more effective for C. striatus.

There is also an acceptance that McClaren is struggling to get the best out of a challenging, high-maintenance multinational squad and that a manager in the mould of Benítez could well provoke a better response from a set of under-achieving players.

We conclude that the concept of holism might provoke a better understanding between educators and industry stakeholders concerning knowledge and skills to deal with risks associated with dynamic shifts in business environments.

If flash heating occurs within the faults, it could explain why the two opposing faces slide the way they do, and provoke a better understanding of earthquakes.

While there, to make ends meet, he played the piano (anther passion for which he'd had great plans) and later, not enjoying it, found his grumbling and wrong notes provoked a better reaction than anything else he did.

The less interference a thread provokes the better for the system.

This is where we enter the nitty gritty of direct mail and a phenomenon called A/B testing, where subtle changes in design are tested on small audiences, in parallel, to see which provokes a better response.

Given our choices, it would be much better to provoke an additional burst of luxury spending than to let high unemployment linger for years.

I wasn't sure if Matthis's character was angry — the "get whitey" tone towards the end is tired, and unmerited — or if she had been directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz to conform to a certain stereotype, the better to provoke and elicit sympathy.