Sentence examples for provoked mainly from inspiring English sources

The incorporation of titanium into the silica framework provoked mainly a proportional increase of Lewis acid sites.

We can suggest that the albumin molecule in plasma of diabetic patients is modified in the chronic hypoxia conditions provoked mainly by hyperglycemia and oxidative stress in diabetes.

These problems were provoked mainly by a low breastfeeding rate and early introduction of inappropriate complementary feeding – for example, parents give their babies tea with sugar or even borscht (traditional sour red beet soup) beginning when the children are three months old.

The related criticism provoked focuses mainly on the fact that measuring innovative ability as the monetary input to a process (e.g., R&D spending) or as the immediate output or results (e.g., number of new products developed, speed to market, new products as percentage of sales, number of patents generated, etc).

Scarface provoked outrage mainly because of its unprecedented violence, but also for its shifts of tone from serious to comedic.

Scarface provoked outrage mainly due to its unprecedented violence, but also because of its shifts of tone from serious to comedic.

Foreign troops in Arab streets cannot fail to provoke resistance, mainly by young men and boys.

For decades, it has mainly provoked condemnation or at best discreet nostalgia.

A high density of population and limited economic opportunities provoked extensive emigration, mainly to the United States and Canada, from the end of the 19th century well into the 20th century and has not entirely ceased.

When the story was published in 1949, the controversy it provoked was intense – mainly among an older generation who refused to accept that the story had any bearing on the conduct of the war, or if it did, insisting that the policy was justified, or that the narrator's pained consciousness demonstrated that this generation of Israeli soldiers had not been taught to hate the Arab enemy enough.

Mountain slope failure is mainly provoked by combine effect of intrinsic and extrinsic parameters.