Sentence examples for provoke the issue from inspiring English sources

Questioning the price of art is not very popular practice among art collectors and NUMBERS hopes to provoke the issue of overstatements of the art auction world.

In recent weeks, the Tamil Nadu chief minister, Jayalalithaa, has seemed eager to deliberately provoke the Sri Lankan issue.

That action may have only served to provoke the United States, which issued a subsequent statement characterizing the nation's twenty-second state as nothing but a big crybaby.

The next American president could win on a number of issues that provoke the ire of conservatives, but have broad public appeal: seriously addressing climate change, reining in military spending, enacting immigration reform, stabilizing Social Security and securing a living wage for workers nationwide.

She flew into Nevada as a wounded favorite, whose stumbling performance during the past six months, much of it provoked by the issue of her personal e-mail server, had left many Democrats wondering whether she could get it together in time to win a nomination that was supposed to have been hers for the taking, let alone to win the general election.

The Protestant Reformation in the 16th century was provoked by the issue of justification, the belief that people were justified -- that is, saved and brought into a right relationship with God -- strictly by God's gift of grace and by faith in Christ, and not by anything that humans might do or earn on their own.

His shenanigans when in power even provoked the Treasury to issue a discussion document to explain why markets do not produce good healthcare for all (Public Services: meeting the productivity challenge, April 2003).

In one of several throwaway "Twitter storms" that he has lately provoked, the author took issue with the idea of emoticons and all who believed in them, "because," he said both mischievously and in earnest, "it takes 600 pages to convey emotion".

The cases that provoked the DOJ to issue its statement involve plaintiffs who have been denied tax, social security, pension, Family and Medical Leave Act, and employment-related benefits.

More fool the taxpayer, Mr Farage's aides replied, greatly irritating Mr Carswell; which in turn provoked the UKIP leader to issue him with a veiled threat, to put up or leave.

Jamaat, a BNP ally, has also been ruled ineligible to fight the election.The issue that provoked the hartal was another move by the government seen as tilting the electoral playing field.