Sentence examples for provoke responses from inspiring English sources

Bob Herbert's assertion that the "continuing slaughter of black youngsters" is related to the "flight of black men from their family responsibilities" may provoke responses like those to Bill Cosby when he criticized low-income blacks.

A confirmed outbreak on Long Island -- or anywhere else -- would provoke responses by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Office of Homeland Security and a number of other federal and state agencies.

Coming so close to Martin Luther King's Birthday and Black History Month in February, Mr. Staples's article, I'm sure, will provoke responses like one I heard from a well-meaning associate some years ago: "African-Americans should look less in the rear-view mirror and more through the windshield.

Furthermore, the Iranian government believes that even a perception that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons is detrimental to the country's security and to its regional role, since attempts by Iran to gain strategic superiority in the Persian Gulf would inevitably provoke responses that would diminish Iran's conventional military advantage.

In advance of a symposium on Friday about the attack on the Oklahoma City federal building and its current relevance, Mr. Clinton, who was in his first term at the time of the bombing, warned that attempts to incite opposition by demonizing the government can provoke responses beyond what political figures intend.

Neighbours taught him how to play drums, piano, and guitar, and he learned about gospel music in churches and at tent revivals, where preachers would scream, yell, stomp their feet, and fall to their knees during sermons to provoke responses from the congregation.

In the present study, demands on behavioural flexibility did not include any 'irrelevant' stimuli that would provoke response competition.

Electronic entertainment is provoking responses that music, books and films can't.

Permanent music reflects its period but provokes responses deeper than nostalgia.

That has tested the limits of the authorities' tolerance, provoking responses that seem tentative and uncertain.

When it came out in 1961, Victim, directed by Basil Dearden, provoked responses of disgust from the press, public and even members of its own production crew.