Sentence examples for provoking a class from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, architecture is not merely the art of putting up a front, and I don't know how I can deal with these buildings without provoking a class war.

He provoked a class of education majors by suggesting that to overcome a decades-long shortage, math and science teachers should be paid more than English teachers.

And when the wealthy left town, the cartel began targeting doctors and other middle-class professionals for kidnappings, provoking a further, middle-class exodus from the city.

The biggest weakness in the argument that Trump can win, Teixeira said, is that it rests on the notion that he can raise turnout among such voters, particularly working-class ones, without provoking a similarly high turnout among anti-Trump voters, particularly people of color.

He certainly succeeded in provoking a debate.

The crackdown is provoking a violent backlash.

In a teacher training college in remote Syktyvkar, the unannounced arrival of a British journalist in an English class provokes a lively and well-informed discussion of Rudyard Kipling's novels.

Be careful when provoking an entity.

The Second International took the Marxist view of imperialism and militarism as creatures of capitalist competition and loudly warned that if the bosses provoked a war, the working classes would refuse to take part.

It's like a massive celebrity wedding, except that you've known the celebrities all your life, they haven't done anything to become famous other than being born, and they also happen to be deeply symbolic of an entrenched class system that provokes a wide range of feelings, from revolutionary anger to fawning deference.

The girl was therefore scolded by the teacher in front of the whole class and this provoked a deep sense of guilt and shame.