Sentence examples for provoked to from inspiring English sources

"India could feel sufficiently provoked to preëmpt militarily," he said.

Some people are provoked to laughter, some to heart attacks, and some — to some negative actions".

Twin sisters in Australia were provoked to write to me and elaborate on their views.

Sentences also were reduced under the defense that a relative had been provoked to commit murder.

Big cat experts have said Tatiana must have been taunted and provoked to attack.

In many of those cases, he said, frustrated ordinary Chinese had been provoked to commit acts of bloodshed.

But if the psychiatrist is right, I do hope readers will be provoked to do more for our warming planet.

Ms. Richards's stepfather, Dunstan Henry, 42, said she was not someone who was easily provoked to fight.

For now we know that there are minds twisted enough to be provoked to kill by any policy they despise.

Yet they are not easily seen as acting because they have been provoked to a loss of self-control.

Elsewhere in the book, Sebald is regularly provoked to humorous indignation by the stubborn intolerability of English service.