Sentence examples for visit provoked from inspiring English sources

News releases and rejoinders flew during the day, and even deciding which schools he would visit provoked a squabble.

The visit provoked a tart response from the Chinese ambassador to India, who depicted it as American interference.

The outrage that his visit provoked may seem to have little to do with "The Gardener," but to separate the movie from its maker and his history would be a mistake.

Instead of securing an alliance, the visit provoked a hostility between the two courts which quickly led to war.

The laughter — at the earnest reckoning occasioned by a weary-looking extraterrestrial and his giant robot; at the panic and distress their visit provokes — serves as a necessary balm.

The queen's visit has provoked anger from opposition republican groups as well as the Irish Republic Aarmy, which has called it "the final insult".

The political firestorm that Prime Minister Netanyahu's visit has provoked has not deterred Bibi.

Her visits initially provoked hostility; rubbish was thrown at her and the crowds jeered, in part because she wore expensive clothes that served to alienate her from people suffering the deprivations of war.

Thein Sein's visit to Washington provoked a blistering attack by the US Campaign for Burma (USCB), which called it "yet another gift to the Burmese government".

In June the South African government ignored an order from the ICC to arrest Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir - for alleged genocide and war crimes in Darfur - as he visited Pretoria, provoking a crisis also with its own courts, which ordered that Bashir not be allowed to leave.

It is unclear if the visits have been provoked by serious concerns that Israel is getting closer to a strike on Iran, or if they are political and are designed to show strong support for Israel in an election year — or both.