provoked造句

His remarks provoked considerable comment.

The race provoked his spirit of competition.

He was provoked to answer rudely.

Her magnanimity provoked his tears, he wept wildly.

The sober language contrasted sharply with the mayhem it provoked.

The exorbitant tolls, rather than the man's bad behavior, provoked a storm of public reaction.

Her manifest lack of interest in the project has provoked severe criticism.

The End of Science provoked a wave of denunciation in the United States last year.

A number of incidents in recent years have provoked a public outcry against media sensationalism and invasion of privacy.

That provoked an international outcry and stirred a series of protests in both Sana 'a and the former capital, Taiz.

Dr Hwang provoked a flurry of excitement a year ago when he published a paper in Science that claimed to have cloned human embryos from embryonic stem cells.

The point isn't to catalogue every possible reason for lying, but to demonstrate that most often, dishonesty is provoked by fear and danger.

Yet the global crisis has provoked anguished disagreement about an equally fundamental matter: how much to rely on exports and how much on domestic demand.

When North Korea fired a less far-flying missile over Japan in 1998, it provoked outrage, and pushed the country to join America in developing missile defences.

A glittering and translucent get rid of the "eight pieces of tea wine" attracted a lot of attention, small and exquisite, exquisite exquisite craft, provoked numerous people fondle admiringly.

Barack Obama got an unsolicited reminder of this on the campaign trail in 2008, when an off-the-cuff remark about the need to “spread the wealth around” provoked some shrill retorts.

We are also put in mind of how the war is, in fact, anything but a revel, though it, too, may have been provoked by a cause as insignificant and hard to trace as "some wizard vermin."