Sentence examples for provoking one another from inspiring English sources

The challenge for both men is to somehow resist provoking one another and coming off as unpresidential.

Paintings complement or provoke one another.

But with camera phones, online journals and Web sites that allow students to rank their peers using terms like "nerd" and worse, there are many new ways for children to provoke one another.

Though the play contains some attitudes and behaviors that are not PC today, I think Noel Coward cared less about the casual violence between Elyot and Amanda, who know exactly how to provoke one another, than the elusive ties that attract and bind this couple, even as ennui and their need for constant drama threaten to break them apart.

"I'm a conservative, I'm a Christian, and I think the United States is the greatest country that has ever existed on the face of the earth!" he shouted, provoking one of four standing ovations.

No point in provoking one?

Tommy Docherty went even further, provoking one of Ferguson's classic putdowns.

Penn, as the world knows, likes a good time; he is also expert at provoking one.

"But Mr. Haig's demeanor signaled that he might be ready for a quarrel, and there was no point in provoking one".

A Singularity has no business model, no major power group in our society is interested in provoking one, nobody who matters sees any reason to create one, there's no there there.

There is still confusion and disagreement about events that night in 1913, which the theatre describes as "provoking one of the greatest scandals in the history of music" and turning The Rite into the "founding work of all modern music".