Lacing his address with references to Iran's pre-Islamic history and claiming that Iran had saved Islam from Arab parochialism, Mr Mashai's patriotic theme provoked a storm of recrimination from members of the religious establishment.
Poland, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, said on Friday that sports ministers from 27 nations who are due to meet in October will debate the issue of "good governance," a theme provoked by ongoing corruption allegations involving FIFA.
Especially in the Southern U.S., its racial theme provoked controversy, for which its authors were unapologetic.
A large part of his work is concerned with the social, literary, and philosophical life of Athens itself and with themes provoked by the Peloponnesian War (431 404 bce).
In some ways, I think, it is; certainly I have always taken to heart some passages in Raymond Chandler's The Simple Art of Murder, especially the passage in which he distinguishes between the inherent importance of themes and the extent to which they are a good subject for writers: Other things being equal, which they never are, a more powerful theme will provoke a more powerful performance.
I want to congratulate the organizers for the thought provoking theme – embracing diversity, calling for change…very appropriate for a model UN group.
Gingrich's use of Eye of the Tiger, the theme from Rocky III, has provoked the ire of Frankie Sullivan, co-writer of the song and owner of the production company Rude Music.
A bar is one of his hangouts, and it provoked a stride-piano theme.
Their solution is to tailor their stock and arrange it not according to standard categories – fiction, biography, science, and so forth – but in suggestive themes designed to provoke browsers into making unexpected connections; early examples include the sea and the sky, family, love, enchantment for the disenchanted, and mothers, madonnas and whores ("possibly my personal favourite," says Davies).
The constrictions of womanhood; the lacerating use of illness as power; and the fine line between self-immolation and self-awareness, are just some of the provoking themes explored in this eerie and captivating novel.
Who did return a call was John Langley, a creator of "Cops" and a more-than-20-year veteran of vérité television, who lamented the recent surge in crime-theme television: "It's not real — it's provoked, manipulated, scripted".
