Sentence examples for provoke only from inspiring English sources

But when he sketches the image during Margot's experiments, questions about her provoke only evasive or hostile responses.

Even the wittiest Korean catchphrases will provoke only bafflement in Chinatown.Saul Gitlin of Kang & Lee, an agency specialising in selling to Asian-Americans, argues that recent Chinese and Korean immigrants are best reached with communications in their mother tongue.

That may sound groundbreaking, but a purchase of MGM by the Indian conglomerate would probably provoke only relief in Tinseltown because it would not upset the industry's status quo.

That makes an intriguing comparison with his recollection of the assassinations, a decade earlier, of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King in his senior college year, which provoke only a feeling that "everything was coming unglued".

"Clearly Hezbollah is hoping to benefit from its engagement in Syria, and clearly Israel is committed to preventing that," said Mr. Spyer, who noted that Israel was taking a "calculated risk" that its limited intervention would provoke only a limited response, if any.

A recent report that Roman Abramovich may be hatching a £40m overture to Barcelona's Pep Guardiola was guaranteed to provoke only a shrug in the phlegmatic Italian-Swiss – as was the most perilous first-half moment when Bruno Cesar played a sublime ball into the path of the normally acute opportunist Oscar Cardozo.

Now it often provokes only curiosity.

The election of Donald Trump provoked only brief panic.

The assaults appear to have been provoked only by the fact that the men were black.

Sometimes he made quite interesting findings, but more often the data provoked only a shrug.

Even the radical pension overhaul, which increased retirement ages and cut benefits, provoked only a three-hour strike.