Sentence examples for provoked years from inspiring English sources

His death in Deptford in May 1593, aged 29, has provoked years of speculation, from the Queen ordering his assassination because of his atheism, to his being killed by a love rival.

One former senior British military commander told me recently he believed the 2003 invasion was the "original sin" that has provoked years of violence, Sunni-Shia sectarian war, and the emergence of Islamic State.

That failure provoked years of political and economic chaos in the country, which to this day is cut off from international capital markets and struggles with inflation and other woes.

Resentment of these landlords helped provoke years of spasmodic sectarian violence.

But this is as nothing compared with the outrage she provoked 500 years ago when Geoffrey Chaucer first put her on the literary map.

Two such challenges were successful and provoked, after years of vigorous debate, a piece of reform legislation: this summer's USA Freedom Act, which shut down the phone records program two and half weeks ago.

The split provoked several years of bloody gangland warfare in the state, which cost hundreds of lives and left all four Beltrán Leyva brothers dead or in prison, and many more old resentments to fester.

His decisions, which he described as mere common sense, provoked a year of intellectual and institutional squabbling.

(According to the team, that show provoked the year's second-highest number of complaints to Ofcom).

The Indianapolis Colts — whose late-year rest for Peyton Manning in previous years provoked ire among fans and league executives alike — lost to the Dallas Cowboys, 38-35, in overtime.

The strain of these years provoked heavy collisions between Edward and his magnates.