Sentence examples for started provoking from inspiring English sources

But he said there were no clashes until the Islamist fighters started "provoking" Palestinians.

The Song were informed of the Jurchen predicament by their ambassadors, who traveled twice a year to the Jin capital, and started provoking their northern neighbor.

The killing scraped a raw nerve in the city, from the start provoking accusations of police brutality and racial bias.

As baby boomers start aging, provoking them to think more seriously about the lifespan of their teeth, the toothbrush industry has become fiercely competitive.

"We want to start and provoke a conversation," said Tim Mahoney, chief product and marketing officer at Volkswagen of America, and "we're off to a rock-solid start".

Once the bell starts to provoke salivation, the bell has become a "conditioned stimulus" (CS) and the salivating, when prompted by the bell alone, a "conditioned response" (CR).

Last but not least, the rapid proliferation of fintech solutions is starting to provoke an attitude within the insurance industry of, "If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em".

This is the point at which Rilling's research starts to provoke uncomfortable titters and juvenile jokes.

Even though we were sitting peacefully, the riot police started pushing and provoking us.

That's a standard pattern to these kind of poisonings, but some local politicians started shouting and provoked the people so we had to transfer them".

But Christian, having gotten his things back, wants nothing more to do with the affair, and the boy starts harassing him, provoking him and upsetting Christian's two young daughters.