Sentence examples for provoke complaints from inspiring English sources

Worryingly for the corporation, the latest scandal a crude prank phone-call by two of its stars broadcast on radio has done more than provoke complaints of poor taste (though there have been more than 30,000 of those).

The rules calling for faster disclosure of corporate financial reports will put more pressure on auditors to complete their assessments of companies and could provoke complaints that more time is needed.

Elliott Abrams, who was a State Department official in the Reagan administration when the Democratic and Republican groups were created, said it was expected that pro-democracy work might provoke complaints from the likes of Vladimir V. Putin of Russia or Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.

The safest transactions, from the point of view of both issuing banks and acquiring banks, occur when the cardholder is physically present to swipe the card and sign the receipt and when the goods are inexpensive and unlikely to provoke complaints.

Its attempts to clean up the air of cities better catalytic converters, hybrid petrol/electric vehicles and, eventually, fuel-cell-powered electric cars running on hydrogen merely serve to provoke complaints that the result will be more globe-warming carbon dioxide.

"Wouldn't it be better to address the question of subjects directly which ones, for how long and what to specify?" asks Alan Smithers, of Buckingham University.One answer is that making hard choices openly would provoke complaints that the curriculum was being dumbed down.

I draw up a list of the sort of things likely to provoke complaint, so that I can avoid them.

As late as the late 40's, he was considering the life of a monk, yet we never hear the argument over that -- just the settling for so many guys in a manner that would surely provoke complaint if this were a straight author telling us about all the women he had had and discarded.

Both campaigns provoked complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority.

The hill of garbage provoked complaints to the agency.

The U.F.C. has acquired each of these, provoking complaints of monopolistic practices.