Sentence examples for provoke consternation from inspiring English sources

Jarvis Cocker and Iggy Pop have an oddly large amount in common: careers spent largely on the outside before late acceptance and success; wildly idiosyncratic personas; and a shared tendency to provoke consternation on stage, be it by gatecrashing a televised Michael Jackson performance (in Cocker's case) or repeated genital exposure (Iggy).

Those comments provoked consternation in France.

This provoked consternation and derision in equal measure from the Socialist Party, and has fed its election campaign ever since.

Braxfield's biased conduct of the trials and the disproportionate sentences handed out had provoked consternation at Westminster.

In 2006 it reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that had provoked consternation and terrorist threats when they were first published by a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten.

In 2006 it reprinted provocative cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that had provoked consternation and terrorist threats when they were first published by a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten.

Yet the expediency of Chile's football federation, of the coach, Jorge Sampaoli, and even of Alexis Sánchez, who defended Vidal before Friday's game, has provoked consternation.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was organizing a major conference in the United States, in an effort to re-start the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and her initiative had provoked consternation among many rightward-leaning American Jews and their Christian evangelical allies.

Though the workings and power relations within the junta remain opaque, one can hold out hope that the enormity of the resort to murderous violence against revered monks has provoked consternation among members of the officer corps.

The resulting 63 potential variations have caused confusion among sociologists and statisticians, provoked consternation among some civil rights advocates and become the butt of jokes among late-night comedians.

The party won 23 of the 57 available seats in Zemun, thereby showing its ability to win over SRS voters in this former Radical bastion (the Radicals came third place in Zemun with only 6 seats).The SNS attempt to build a more moderate rightwing movement distinct from the extremism of the SRS has proved popular with voters and has provoked consternation in the ranks of the liberals.