Sentence examples for provoke others from inspiring English sources

We'd be wise to take a different path, and avoid exploiting one environmental crisis only to provoke others.

Aside from humour, the best way to guarantee a reaction is to provoke others – either in agreement or disagreement.

Apparently Weiner-Savage is accused of "seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence".

Now, in our age of genetic determinism, society is once again seeing psychopaths everywhere, and this will no doubt provoke others to say they are nowhere, and the cycle of overexposure and underfunding will continue.

His crime, according to the prosecution, was to provoke others into action by his support for a resistance movement against a projected high-speed train line between the French city of Lyons and Turin.

Indeed, would publication of the offending cartoons serve only to provoke others to take retaliatory action or, at the very least, encourage yet more alienation of Muslims in British society?

He has carefully avoided saying or doing anything to provoke other Asian nations, while focusing instead on wooing voters with steps to revive the moribund domestic economy.

According to the medical journal, the presence of pets can exacerbate asthma or anaphylaxis, as well as provoke other allergic reactions.

An officer at a federal detention center said Mr. Wilson had used coded calls to provoke other gang members to attack guards.

A nuclear Iran would provoke other countries to acquire nuclear weapons and put an end once and for all to the UN goal of a nuclear free Middle East.

Their appeal lies not only in the comic and unsettling combination of human and animal traits, but also in the way they provoke other characters to reveal themselves through their reactions to them.