Sentence examples for provoked consternation from inspiring English sources

Those comments provoked consternation in France.

The report has provoked consternation in scientific circles for months.

This provoked consternation and derision in equal measure from the Socialist Party, and has fed its election campaign ever since.

Braxfield's biased conduct of the trials and the disproportionate sentences handed out had provoked consternation at Westminster.

In 2006 it reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that had provoked consternation and terrorist threats when they were first published by a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten.

In 2006 it reprinted provocative cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that had provoked consternation and terrorist threats when they were first published by a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten.

Jarvis Cocker and Iggy Pop have an oddly large amount in common: careers spent largely on the outside before late acceptance and success; wildly idiosyncratic personas; and a shared tendency to provoke consternation on stage, be it by gatecrashing a televised Michael Jackson performance (in Cocker's case) or repeated genital exposure (Iggy).

The nominees for this year's Mobo awards, announced on Wednesday night, have provoked more consternation than usual, owing to the proportion of white faces on the list.

In the queue, largely made up of foreign tourists but with a fair smattering of British citizens, this provoked some consternation.

And vague, unexplained assertions by law enforcement officials that race may have played a role in the attack — the boy with the rifle was white, the victim black — have provoked additional consternation.

The "epic fail" of every single candidate in the admission exam provoked bafflement, consternation and heated debate on Tuesday, with some convinced that flaws in Liberia's education system had been brutally exposed.