Any toughening of police powers to deal with terrorism seems to provoke objections in Karlsruhe.
Although employers are reluctant to make changes that might provoke objections from workers in a tight labor market, many companies are considering an eventual shift to so-called defined contribution plans.
Trump had pledged during the presidential campaign to move it to Jerusalem, a move almost certain to provoke objections from Muslims around the world.
(Even "Kung Fu Panda" provoked objections by some Chinese, who saw the lead character as profaning a nationally revered animal).
He has kept his word, though not without provoking objections from more traditional German critics and concertgoers.
The program, the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System, known as Capps 2, has provoked objections from privacy advocates, because it involves the use of commercial databases.
The new policy stems from a detective's recruitment of students, for a $20 fee, near Uniondale High School in March, which provoked objections from parents, school officials and a county legislator.
Mr. Pope, who is black, provoked objections on Capitol Hill in 1996 when word got around that he would use his $20,000 endowment grant to walk around New York City wearing a 14-foot-long white cardboard penis as a commentary on "the supremacy of white phalluses".
