Sentence examples for purpose to provoke from inspiring English sources

As early as 1851, New York Congressman William Duer alleged that that Patterson had made the gold dollar too small in diameter on purpose to provoke criticism.

Its purpose is to provoke public debate about the state of education in the world, and renew the goals of the forum.

Their purpose is to provoke symptoms deliberately and train your brain to get used to the symptoms.

If this leads to a crude military response, then the terrorists will have achieved part of their purpose, which was to provoke the other side to indiscriminate retaliation, and thereby increase their own support.

After devoting much of the 1970s to producing Passstücke, or Adaptives, a series of abstract forms with no obvious purpose other than to provoke a physical response, West pursued similar objectives in two strands of work — abstract sculpture and furniture.

This was not simply a one-way process: Savage quotes tellingly from the diaries of German teenagers in the 30s to illustrate the appeal of the Hitler Youth to young people wanting status or a sense of purpose, or just to provoke their parents.

A case like the present one, in which those rules have been twisted for what appear to be ideological purposes, is bound to provoke intense indignation, directed not merely at the I.R.S. but at the larger agenda it appears to be serving.

He said of the march, "The purpose of this clearly is to provoke and to cause chaos".

Purpose of this project is to provoke your imagination".

Every commodity seems to provoke a purpose-built protest movement.

The whole purpose of books like these is to provoke you into working up an outlook of your own -- and here are two books that are wonderfully useful for provoking new thoughts of every kind, even a few never intended by the authors.