Sentence examples for provoking us from inspiring English sources
But Jelinek has a way of provoking us to reëxamine our instinct to recoil.
"The settlers are provoking us continuously," said Hani Abu Reidi, head of the village council.
The first is aimed at Georgia: by moving towards NATO, you are provoking us, so take the consequences.
We face a government in England deliberately provoking us into a dispute and so no doubt already preparing for this," McAnea added.
Manderlay split opinion, provoking US critics to fulminate against Lars von Trier's anti-Americanism, while being greeted by at least some of the European critics as a masterpiece.
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan signed a bill on Monday that criminalises same-sex relationships, defying western pressure over gay rights and provoking US criticism.
We praise politicians when they raise the discourse, and use language and images that provoke us to reflect on who we might be.
He also said that the Tokyo war crimes trials were a US attempt to cover up "cruel massacres" in Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki - comments that provoked US diplomatic outrage.
They know just how to provoke us into anti-Muslim rhetoric and belligerent policies, which they find most useful to their project and their movement.
This will provoke us even more.
