Sentence examples for we were provoked from inspiring English sources

Still, we could always say we were provoked.

Abdi Oueybdid, who was an aide to that recalcitrant warlord, Muhammad Farah Aidid, says later: "We were provoked to fight.

When we were provoked before, the military's first thought was about the aftermath of its response and the politics.

We were provoked.

It doesn't matter if we are provoked.

Although, this is most challenging in those instances when we're provoked, it's essential that we take pause and avoid reacting out of conditioned responses.

We're provoked to condemn the molestation of male children by their preachers, parents, or another adult, as evidenced in works of art such as Ray Donovan, Doubt, Spotlight, Red Hook Summer, and Antwone Fisher.

"We are provoking civilizational struggle," he writes.

Our infrastructure was built for the climate system we inherited and is not designed to cope with the climate system we are provoking.

"We've changed our style slightly, and we are provoking ourselves a bit," the band's keyboardist, Kjartan Sveinsson, 30, said at a Midtown hotel the day of the Grand Ballroom show.

We're provoking people to think," says del Naja, conceding that he also needed some "shaking up" himself.