Sentence examples for ready to provoke from inspiring English sources

"He is very easily provoked and we had that gallery full of people very ready to provoke," Mr Lukic said.

"When did everyone become so patriotic and ready to provoke the masses into absolutist valour?" asks Yıldırım of Çanakkale 1915.

"There was another version of him," Black says of his attractively flawed hero, "a personality within a personality, malcontent, vindictive, ever ready to provoke".

Confrontational leadership was about being "ready to provoke your players, to try to create some conflict, with the intention to bring out the best from them".

She seemed ready to provoke the Soviet Union to a civilization-ending conflict, bringing American nuclear missiles to Europe, and instead was present at the Warsaw Pact's mostly peaceful disintegration.

BOGOTA, Colombia, April 22 —As the Colombian Army en forced calm in the country to day, leaders of the movement trying to return Gen. Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, the former dicta tor, to power, insisted that they were ready to provoke civil war in the general's cause.

Watching Falwell's preening and posturing speech -- at one point he gestured toward his back pocket and implied he had a gun ready to fire at any provocation, provoking laughs and cheers -- I shuddered to think of the environment for academic freedom and debate on his campus.

During another exchange, which served to provoke the ever-ready Sharpton indignation, Mr. Rather said, "I think you will agree, the voters have spoken".

The conservative think tanks in Washington stand ready to heed the call, and maybe to provoke it, if they have an in.

Hizbullah did not seek escalation, he said, but if Israel chose confrontation, "We are ready".Bombs fall on LebanonDid Mr Nasrallah intend to provoke a powerful reaction?

But if the authorities try to provoke us in any ways we are ready and prepared to retaliate," said Chandra Bahadur Thapa.