Sentence examples for provoker from inspiring English sources

Just remember Shakespeare's advice, from Macbeth: "Drink sir, is a great provoker … it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance".

By refusing to be provoked, one frustrates and therefore "beats" the provoker; generations of bullied children have been consoled with this logic.

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The marji'iyyah – the small group of men at the top of the Shia religious hierarchy – have come to see the Prime Minister as a provoker of crises that discredit Shi'ism and may break up the country.

The blunt editorial, which spoke of royalty as the symbol of unity of the British peoples, of duty, and of royal conscience, was a surprise and a provoker of new bitter argument.

This will not be available for day to day situations but only exceptionally and where the conduct of the "provoker" is morally wrong in the eyes of the jury – the current law does not require that that conduct should be wrong, only provoking.

Denton is often said to believe that his blogs' targets secretly like the attention, given the evidence of subjects who have settled into masochistic cycles of lashing out, further provoking the provokers.

She exists for Lange and others not as a professional journalist, but as a boner-provoker, and Lange made sure she knew it – even adding her Twitter handle to his fantasies so she would be sure to see.

That makes the final surprise a head-scratcher rather than a thought-provoker.

NICHOLSON BAKER: Thank you everyone for these thought-provokers — I enjoyed being here.

Dr. Clarence Cookie Little, chairman of the industry group's scientific advisory board, said his board never had any doubt that tobacco tars contained cancer-provokers, known scientifically as carcinogens.