Sentence examples for seeking to provoke from inspiring English sources

I asked, seeking to provoke.

Some Mexicans fear that he is seeking to provoke violence.

As Booker chairman, he was only doing his job in seeking to provoke faux controversy.

Both of them felt that Mr. Chávez's opponents were seeking to provoke violence.

Russia accused Georgia of "seeking to provoke new hostilities," while Russian authorities were dismantling checkpoints outside South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Civil servant Dimitri Silveira, 33, said he was not looking for conflict but protesters were seeking to provoke government supporters.

They might seek to provoke communal or religious clashes.

Rather, he sought to provoke an "alchemical process".

"Attractive" is code for provocative, and these days only the foolhardy would seek to provoke.

"We seek to provoke reactions in the spectator's personal world view.

We do not seek to provoke a conflict, but to prevent a conflict".