Sentence examples for thereby provoking from inspiring English sources
Paris goes on to abduct Helen(third scene), thereby provoking a war (second act), and his father's death at the end of the opera.
He had been her father's Secretary of Defense and was reliably believed to have warned General Zia that Bhutto was about to remove him, thereby provoking the General, if he had any lingering doubts, to stage his 1977 coup.
In 1700 Charles II, the last monarch of the Habsburg dynasty, died without an heir, thereby provoking the War of the Spanish Succession (1701 14), a European conflict over control of Spain.
Meanwhile Cleburne deployed a unit of sharpshooters, thereby provoking the Federal commander into attempting an unwise flank attack.. Cleburne reasoned that the Federals diverted troops from the center of their defense line in order to bolster the flanking maneuver.
So the issue is not whether the museum can do the show, but whether it has taken minor art, elevated it to the status of significance by exhibiting it, thereby provoking an inevitable reaction, then defended its action as part of its responsibility to show significant art, even if it is offensive to some Jews.
During the nineteen-sixties, Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern," Wood's "H" (a chronicle of the Indian Mutiny of 1857), and Nichols' "The National Health" were all to be presented at the National Theatre, thereby provoking rumors of a Bristolian conspiracy to dominate British drama.
Thereby provoked English War Office into ordering court-martial for too trustful victim.
He proves a more hated tyrant than his cousin Constantius and thereby provokes the Christians into advancing their cause.
These people feel they must keep their heads down, accept decisions passed by parliamentarians, and not kick up too much of a fuss and thereby provoke local retribution.
In so doing, these citizens will thereby provoke determined resistance and civil conflict.
BFA thereby provokes the aggregation of endosomal vesicles including trans-Golgi network (TGN) compartment and induces the formation of large structures named as BFA compartments.
