Questioning the price of art is not very popular practice among art collectors and NUMBERS hopes to provoke the issue of overstatements of the art auction world.
She flew into Nevada as a wounded favorite, whose stumbling performance during the past six months, much of it provoked by the issue of her personal e-mail server, had left many Democrats wondering whether she could get it together in time to win a nomination that was supposed to have been hers for the taking, let alone to win the general election.
The Protestant Reformation in the 16th century was provoked by the issue of justification, the belief that people were justified -- that is, saved and brought into a right relationship with God -- strictly by God's gift of grace and by faith in Christ, and not by anything that humans might do or earn on their own.
In recent weeks, the Tamil Nadu chief minister, Jayalalithaa, has seemed eager to deliberately provoke the Sri Lankan issue.
That action may have only served to provoke the United States, which issued a subsequent statement characterizing the nation's twenty-second state as nothing but a big crybaby.
His shenanigans when in power even provoked the Treasury to issue a discussion document to explain why markets do not produce good healthcare for all (Public Services: meeting the productivity challenge, April 2003).
In one of several throwaway "Twitter storms" that he has lately provoked, the author took issue with the idea of emoticons and all who believed in them, "because," he said both mischievously and in earnest, "it takes 600 pages to convey emotion".
What had provoked the inspectors to issue Stop Work Orders was the Amish men's refusal to install smoke alarms in their newly built houses.
The cases that provoked the DOJ to issue its statement involve plaintiffs who have been denied tax, social security, pension, Family and Medical Leave Act, and employment-related benefits.
The issue that provoked the most consternation was investment portfolios.
This was the issue that provoked the famous incident where Michael Heseltine seized the Mace, the symbol of the Commons' authority and waved it at Labour MPs.
