Sentence examples for while provoking from inspiring English sources

Maybe this is what the best novels, hypothetic or otherwise, do—unbury the dead, break down doors, and let the skeletons out, all the while provoking conversations we would rather not have.

How Obama thinks he can double U.S. exports by 2015 while provoking China is a mystery.

His political opponents are convinced that his plan is to boost Scottish pride north of the border while provoking English rage south of it, I noted.

The widowed Margery runs a Bible-promoting class while provoking something more than missionary zeal in the teenage Tim and the lonely hands-on pastor.

On its publication in France as Les Particules Elémentaires, it shot up the bestseller charts while provoking outrage for its strands of homophobia, racism and misogyny, not to mention explicit and frequently voyeuristic sex and violence.

Anelka has previously been photographed performing the gesture alongside Dieudonné but Saturday's events brought the debate to England while provoking further outrage and debate in France, where the match was televised.

Poetry obsessed him for a while, provoked by a two-year glitch in his relationship with Diane.

It promised it fascinates, thrills, and exhilarates, and all the while provokes the pleasingly puzzled passengers into fits of hilarious laughter as they fail to understand and enter into the spirit of this delightful perplexity, a new sensation which is bound to become a "screaming success".

While provoked by the question of whether Chief Justice Roberts has made the best choices for a particular court, the issue is a good deal deeper.

The strikes that broke out in the Tehran bazaar last week, while provoked by a proposed income tax increase, reflect the growing rift between the conservative factions, with the merchants, or bazaaris, on the side of the traditionalists.

The Sims accomplishes the rare feat of entertaining while also provoking intellectual and emotional engagement with some of life's fundamental questions.