Sentence examples for theory provoke from inspiring English sources

This defect could in theory provoke the rodents to wash excessively, although molecular geneticist Mario Capecchi of the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City and colleagues note that Hoxb8-lacking mice also obsessively groom other mice.

Once we were in the federal court system, we knew it would be harder for the authorities to intimidate us, as any such action would in theory provoke a federal investigation.

In the United States, Darwin's theory provokes debate on matters of religion, politics, and education even while forming the cornerstone of modern biological thought.

Here's how the universe came to be, according to the new theory: Provoked by random fluctuations, our unseen companion spontaneously shed a membrane that slowly floated toward our universe.

His academic superiors express doubts about the scientific validity of the experiment, and the publication of Darwin's theories provokes an immediate exposure of the project's fallacies.

And out of parts of this ground, rather than the leftish 60's, have come new conspiracy theories, provoked by occurrences like the Branch Davidian incident in Waco, Tex., and interpretations of any number of events during the presidency of Bill Clinton, the conservative bête noire par excellence.

They might also help prevent the immune system from attacking a fertilized egg or embryo, which carries "foreign" molecules from the father and, in theory, should provoke immune cells.

His theory has provoked vehement opposition from some mental health professionals, child abuse experts and lawyers.

Steve Gould, whose monographs on the evolution of land snails, and whose general writings on macroevolutionary theory have provoked much discussion and controversy in evolutionary studies.

The same theory has provoked the introduction of bills in numerous other states and earlier but more narrowly focused immigration laws already in force in seven states.

These findings revived Aristotle's theory and provoked collision against preformation views.