How To Use Provo In A Sentence
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Arguing that FDR provoked the attack was Gore Vidal, novelist, provocateur, T. V. icon, and one of the greatest English-language essayists alive.
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The collegers came from a wide social range, though conditions in College were bad and the boys much neglected until the reforms brought in by Provost Hodgson (1840-53).
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Of course, Whitty himself ain’t exactly a peach; he loves him some torture, and buries knives in bellies with minimal provocation; when it comes to witch-hunting, he’s of the “burn her alive now, ask questions … well, don’t really bother asking questions, it’s just so damn fun to burn people, let’s do it some more!” school.
Cry of the Banshee « Skid Roche
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Perhaps it comes straight out of that party line dictionary that was written in a smoke-filled room in Sevastapol Street by the same faceless Provo apparatchik who a few years back advocated the practically endless use of the term 'securocrat'.
Archive 2009-01-01
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Even the chief civil authority of the town was deterred from sallying forth by a remembrance of a predecessor in the provostship who had been buried in a stable mixen all but his head, to the detriment of his clothes and the still greater and more lasting hurt to his dignity.
Patsy
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Although he had not howled once, his snarling and growling, combined with his thirst, had hoarsened his throat and dried the mucous membranes of his mouth so that he was incapable, except under the sheerest provocation, of further sound.
CHAPTER XVI
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In a seemingly unprovoked incident, the attackers hit both men and women in the 16-strong party, with a 72-year-old woman left unconscious.
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He seems to feel duty-bound to provoke a reaction whether it is outrage, exasperation, outright hostility or unreserved admiration.
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Plurimum incitant et provocant influentiae caelestes.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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A compelling storyteller with many voices lyric, operatic and diaristic, Ms. Snyder is often provocative; occasionally didactic or off-key.
The Lady of the Wild Things
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He has made a string of outspoken and sometimes provocative speeches in recent years.
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The Russians would take a small slice at a time via dubious but not too provocative measures until the whole salami is gone.
Archive 2008-06-01
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Traditional bridal wear combines with theatrical costume and effects to create an entertaining and thought-provoking visual statement.
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When she returned she redressed her hair, drawing it back across her ears, put in at a provocative angle a fan-like carved shell comb, and twisted a shawl of flame-colored silk -- it was a manton, she instructed him -- about her shoulders.
Cytherea
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This was gracious of him and also provoked an unexpected conspiratorial mirth between the interviewer and interviewee.
Times, Sunday Times
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In his provocative work, Clichés To Live By And The Death Of The Sixties, Anaxamander O'Flaherty, a necro-ethnolinguist at the University of Altamont, suggests that the expression, "Everything is everything," succumbed to a natural death brought on by such factors as over-utilization, deterioration of relevance, and lack of adaptability to altered states of reality vis-à-vis the American experience.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3
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This has provoked anger among some Labour veterans who spent the Eighties in vicious battles with the impossibilist left to return the party to electability.
Despite their hopes of a great revival, the left got left behind
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The system of education and discipline pursued has undergone some modifications in recent years -- notably during the provostship of the Rev. Francis Hodgson; but radical defects are still alleged against it.
The Grand Old Man
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This was gracious of him and also provoked an unexpected conspiratorial mirth between the interviewer and interviewee.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the judge reminded the jury, in interview Bodrul denied that he was acting in self - defence and he said that he was not acting under provocation.
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The group was welcomed by West Dunbartonshire's Lord Provost Alistair MacDonald, and presented with a silver quaich.
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At other times it provokes genuine, childish delight, the wonderment of having stumbled across a secret.
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We had many family quarrels about it, and they began in time to grow up to a dangerous height; for as I was quite estranged form my husband (as he was called) in affection, so I took no heed to my words, but sometimes gave him language that was provoking; and, in short, strove all I could to bring him to a parting with me, which was what above all things in the world I desired most.
Moll Flanders
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After all, a strong leader provokes a strong reaction.
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The disclosures last night provoked renewed condemnation of Britain's multibillion-pound arms industry for selling to both sides in the escalating Kashmir crisis.
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This quietly provocative documentary cuts right to the heart of America's most contentious issue.
Times, Sunday Times
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Especially on the left, the defeat in 1849 provoked a period of reassessment which, together with the hardship and loneliness of political exile, led to some substantial political realignments.
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It's long, but it's thought provoking in many ways.
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In the first year of the new academic plan, 11 proposals from three colleges were funded through the pool managed by the Provost Office.
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In acquiescing, the government was well aware that the final terms would provoke peasant hostility, and took suitable precautions.
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I remember anticipating the possible punishment of being caned for writing about ‘an enemy’ - a Western Christian woman - and later being admonished by mum for provoking the authorities.
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However, the Trouts have skillfully created a spectacle as beautiful as it is thought provoking.
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We should therefore not be surprised that the twenties were an enthusiastic display of unchaperoned dating, provocative dress, and exhibitionist behavior.
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Eye-witness accounts told of the unprovoked shooting of civilians.
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It puts forward the idea that Earth is a globular allium and "pain and fear" are the lachrymatory agents that provoke all the tears.
Readers recommend songs about vegetables: The results
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The last thing we want is to put ourselves in the position where he is taunted or provoked and reacts again.
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In November of 1997, after a massacre in Luxor that killed fifty-eight tourists and provoked overwhelming revulsion, Egypt's Gamaa al-Islamiya halted its armed struggle.
Backfire
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Frank, who felt a little provoked over the accident, since he aspired to be a capable canoeman at all times.
The Outdoor Chums After Big Game Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness
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Tax deficient California's treatment of multinational firms threatens to provoke a global tax war.
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After explaining the context, we pose a series of questions regarding common factors that are intended to be thought provoking.
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The pair of articles provoked a large number of responses from readers.
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If power interests are threatened, then new models of conformity may merely provoke new forms of deviance.
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He claimed that it was her rudeness that provoked him to strike her.
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He is also about 12 years of age and, as far as we know, it was a completely unprovoked assault.
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It's sad to see such a provocative thinker go out with a whimper instead of a bang.
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The comments have provoked outrage, with politicians in France and Germany vocal in condemning what they termed a distortion of the scientific evidence that risked putting many more lives at risk in sub-Saharan Africa, where millions are living with the disease.
Top stories from Times Online
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His manner was rather that of a music hall artist, complacent, even cheerful, as his one-liners provoked from his audience the rejoinders he sought.
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The problem since then has been how to rekindle a spirit of democratic inquiry without provoking another conservative backlash.
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While the red dress was provocative and outrageous, this dress was demure and conservative, not exposing much of anything.
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The decision to close the factory has provoked fury.
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His use of the term "basically altruistic" is surely intended to be provocative, but what the economist means is that terrorists are often acting out of a desire to help others in their group.
Are al-Qaida and the Taliban driven by the desire to help others? | Aditya Chakrabortty
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These assumptions often provoke heated disagreements because it is so hard to find anyplace to look to settle them.
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On a basic level, the destruction of these austere cuboid monoliths on our skyline has provoked us to reflect on what buildings mean.
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In his recent annual address to the clergy the Bish. lamented bitterly that the American "jingo" was provoking dear patient Christian England to put on her war-paint.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
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The lawyer claimed his client was provoked into acts of violence by the defendant.
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The lightness of heart which had dressed them in masquerade habits, had decorated their tents, and assembled them in fantastic groups, appeared a sin against, and a provocative to, the awful destiny that had laid its palsying hand upon hope and life.
II.6
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The affair has provoked calls from teachers' unions for a rethink of the tests and the importance they are given in selecting teachers.
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The reference to text messages provoked hilarity on the opposition benches.
Times, Sunday Times
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The more the reactionaries lash out, the more resistance they provoke.
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What happened here was an unprovoked and cowardly attack,' he said.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was something brilliantly provocative about the conjoining of two Arsenal related news items this week.
Arsenal's failure to win trophies is not down to faint hearts | Barney Ronay
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And so the most important of "the streamlike windings of the glorious street" was in part determined by a corrupt bargain between "a vile Whig" (as Hearne calls this hated Provost) and a complaisant mayor.
The Charm of Oxford
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In the 1830s this provoked significant tension between antislavery parliamentarians and activists in the country.
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The offensive has provoked an al-Qaida-linked self-proclaimed commander of the Pakistani Taliban to suspend peace talks with the government.
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Provos is an expert on steganography, the science of concealing secret messages in seemingly innocuous content.
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If he were to tell the truth it would provoke Newton into the next carriage across the Sands.
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Certain people were responsible for stopping conflicts, and there were ways to deal with provocations and ways to make peace.
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Condoleezza Rice, his national security adviser, is a former provost of Stanford University.
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My post, while intentionally understated, is meant to provoke one to think about the insanity of "sameness" being the purpose of education.
"No Child Left Behind" Is Nothing New In Albuquerque
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The dispute is still thought likely to provoke a stormy, if not violent, showdown.
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This sustained defiance of the elements provoked occasional judgments in the shape of a "hoast" (cough), and the head of the house was then exhorted by his women folk to "change his feet" if he had happened to walk through a burn on his way home, and was pestered generally with sanitary precautions.
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)
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Sir, he is rash and very sudden in choler, and haply may strike at you: provoke him, that he may; for even out of that will I cause these of Cyprus to mutiny; whose qualification shall come into no true taste again but by the displanting of Cassio.
Othello, the Moore of Venice
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If it still provokes a reaction then it should be excluded for six months at least.
The Beat Fatigue Workbook - how to identify the causes
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Whatever reaction it provokes, there is an obligation to history to unmask an apparent lie of this magnitude and establish the truth.
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A polite tongue provided a shield of tactful silence and banal pleasantries that staved off needless provocation and harm.
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The only time I felt provoked to send him a strong punchy letter was when he flew out on a secret mission to China, in the early 1970s, as Nixon's special messenger.
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The comments provoked widespread criticism, and she apologised.
Times, Sunday Times
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The vignette, with its quartet of bare-chested musclemen around a poker table, their biceps and pectorals effectively lit by the low-hanging overhead fixture, is funny and provocative.
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And to attack us in a way that might provoke a response, I don't think is in his interest.
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Minor building alterations brought forth mighty dagga plants; cannas migrated without provocation into any gap left by the lantana and inkberry.
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The marching an army into the midst of a peaceful Mexican settlement, frightening the inhabitants away, leaving their growing crops and other property to destruction, to you may appear a perfectly amiable, peaceful, unprovoking procedure; but it does not appear so to us.
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Such defiantly provocative work, and the uproarious punk music which accompanied it, won him cult status.
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There was no doubt that Madge was a most provoking and persistent sniggler.
The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols
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The suggestion inevitably provoked outrage from student leaders.
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What on earth had Hugh Puddephat done to provoke such passionate hatred in this well-mannered woman?
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It was like Lizzy to be so provoking to the poor young man.
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We must assume his comments were deliberately provocative to attract interest to the rather dry topic of female participation in public life.
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Let me change the subject away from race, to Leroi's provocative remarks about beauty and deformity.
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Un agent provocateur est une personne agissant secrètement pour le compte d'un groupe mais apparaissant comme le membre d'un autre pour perturber son activité incitant délibérément, par ses propos et son comportement, à commettre des actes sanctionnés par la loi ou par l'opinion publique Wikipedia.
Agent provocateur, provoquer, provocant/e
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We discussed Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's concerns that blogging is just 'pub bores' ( see debate on political blogging here on TV), the state of the blog wars, in which both sides have taken a lot of flak, particularly Tim, who has provoked a needed debate about damage done to the image of blogging by lack of basic 'netiquette', and who has been viciously ( anonymously) lambasted for it, which rather proves his original point.
Blogger TV again
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English in the West Indies; or, the/[Page xi]/Bow of Ulysses '(the long bow of Ulysses it should have been), provoked numerous damaging replies, the most effective of which was' Mr. Froude's Negrophobia; or,
New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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A defection from Labour ranks to the Scottish Socialist Party in Renfrewshire a month ago means that Labour can only win votes with the casting vote of the provost.
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The special representative in South Africa of the Organisation of African Unity, Legwaila J Legwaila, on Monday rejected what he called the provocative linkage that gave the impression the
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Not only that, the filmmakers created a provocative action film that ponders the essence of reality and identity.
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These politic enclosures for paltry mutton, makes more rebellion in the flesh, than all the provocative electuaries doctors have uttered since last jubilee.
The White Devil
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Some of the dissenters, provoked by the police use of tear gas against them, responded by torching Gabriel's house.
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Top each burger with a slice of the provolone and allow it to melt.
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Even your humble correspondent succumbed to the spirit of anarchy, but the response my "crudeness" provoked gives me a few suggestions for investigators chasing leads on the recent spate of criminal harassment toward progressive elements.
Archive 2005-10-16
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But this isn't some random apothegm; it is a dramatic thought, provoked by the life situation of the main character and attributed to him; it certainly is not an Olympian idea delivered from on high.
Martin Amis's 'The Pregnant Widow' Is A 'Strange, Sparkling Novel' (New York Review)
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Accumulation of the neurotransmitters in the synaptic cleft occurs provoking an increase in the stimulation of postsynaptic receptors. 3
Cocaine Toxicity
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Her secrecy was one of the things that most excited him, being alone with his poupe provoked a tantalizing sense of collusion, rare for Linus, who had little time for others.
The Forgotten Garden
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Although she had been told that the mygale sometimes ate small birds, her short experience in the Amazon had taught her that not many creatures - insects and piranha excepted - attacked unless hungry, provoked, trodden upon or surrounded by others of their species.
River Of Desire
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In the first episode a shocking, random act of violence sees a young woman knocked to the ground in an unprovoked attack by a stranger.
The Sun
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His remarks about her weight provoked her into telling him to shut up.
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I know without a doubt that if provoked my mother could become a homicidal maniac in defence of her animals.
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Nathan was looking at her with a wild expression, the kind he got whenever she had deliberately provoked him.
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She almost pitied the Seth's clingy girlfriend, except that the busty girl really should have known better than to intentionally provoke her.
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These particular punishments, the lectures that preceded them and the screams they provoked, were recorded on a giant reel-to-reel tape recorder that stood in the living-room.
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Nursery nurses claim the council has provoked the action by ignoring their arguments for an increase in their hourly rate.
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Such an attitude expects no rebuffs and overlooks those it provokes.
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These offences provoked an outcry when the nation was honouring those who have died in service.
The Sun
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It was brought into the station by the lord provost of Stirling, Colin O'Brien, accompanied by pipers to the tune of ‘Scots Wha Hae’.
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It drew a line; it created an elect; it was sophisticated and Continental; it dealt with provocative subjects, with torture, sadism, hermaphroditism––with sex and power.
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He used to suddenly get excited, for you could tell that he was excited, and rhapsodize at the slightest provocation about baseball - all he needed was the slimmest excuse, and sometimes none.
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From Mike Wallace, "This 'scandalmonger' was entertained and provoked by Ms. Garment's remarkable catalogue.
Scandal: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics
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He seemed to her like the kind of man who loved to provoke reaction.
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Our colleges and universities need deans, provosts and presidents who support and promote psychological science.
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Provocatively mingy tax cuts seem to have caused black affront on a scale to surprise even the Nats.
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Repeated attempts to provoke an attack may cause the symptoms to disappear altogether.
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These changes provoked the anger of William Cobbett, who wished to return to a golden age when England was still a land of prosperous yeomen farmers and contented cottagers.
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It is languid, thought provoking and compulsively interesting, but, much like its poster, it won't be the most exciting film at the multiplex.
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Their methods of cover-up and provocation indicate a consciousness of guilt and a fear of exposure.
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There is something playfully provocative about a man extolling the virtues of privacy while surrounded by a cabal of at least 20 people.
Times, Sunday Times
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The date was the 79th anniversary of the Mukden incident, a plot by Japanese Imperial Army officers that helped provoke the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
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I know no poet who, even in quite slapdash poems, can provide more pleasant and provocative surprises.
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Let alone the content of the piece, the tsarist ring of the title was bound to provoke Soviet anger.
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While shifting to billiards is too provocative for Washington, if trends continue, it may soon find itself behind the eight ball with few options for maintaining its stabilizing role in the region.
Billiards in the South China Sea
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We'd expected modern and clean, with curtains, carpets and polished samovars, happy, helpful provodniks and reputedly awful food.
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Flexion force applied against long finger (third digit) extension distal to the proximal interphalangeal joint may provoke pain over the extensor muscle mass in the proximal forearm.
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The existence of competing bodies claiming to exercise jurisdiction in the town inevitably provoked violent confrontation.
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Sectarian tensions had already been running high, and the abductions threaten to provoke armed conflict.
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'Your message re the krytron that provoked Hawkins's ire must have been badly handled.'
Santorini
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The Court might seek to change parts of it piecemeal and over a period of time as this would appear to be less provocative towards an elected body.
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Many now argue that the reporter is needed to provoke engagement with the viewer.
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The rift with the rest of the ECB's council deepened in September when, in an interview with Bloomberg, Mr. Weber pre-empted the policy decisions of the council's next meeting, something that provoked a memorable put-down from the normally imperturbable Mr. Trichet.
Was Weber Sacrificed for the Euro?
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The comments provoked an angry response from union leaders.
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All told, this was a lachrymose week, though perversely if the greatest music provokes a lump in your throat you know it's all going swimmingly.
Antonio Meneses and Maria João Pires; La traviata – review
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If we could offer a tip it would be to never say tally-ho, whatever the provocation.
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“Having served as a law school dean in the past, Trish is poised to strengthen a variety of aspects of the school, including the faculty and its academic programs,” stated UM Executive Vice President and Provost Dr. Tom LeBlanc.
Discourse.net: Patricia D. White to Be Dean of University of Miami School of Law
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It was the more provoking, as Bunce himself could write his name legibly, and one of those three doubting souls had for years boasted of like power, and possessed, indeed, a Bible, in which he was proud to show his name written by himself some thirty years ago -- "Job Skulpit;" but it was thought that Job Skulpit, having forgotten his scholarship, on that account recoiled from the petition, and that the other doubters would follow as he led them.
The Warden
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We spent festive evenings at Riversdale enjoying fine Australian wine and cuisine, and taking in thought-provoking lectures by the tutors.
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And if the evidence for charges relating to his hostile acts indicates that he was acting in self-defense, then his conduct is as justifiable as would be an assault on a police officer who commits an unprovoked attack on a person.
Balkinization
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Mr. Bulluck said Mr. Coughlin had specifically and exactingly warned the team Saturday night that Tennessee would try to provoke personal fouls.
Giants Reeling From Sloppy Play
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Doonan sees these provocateurs not as a bunch of kooky broads but as important representatives of the evolution of women's culture.
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The clamor of controversy sometimes provoked the emperor to exclaim, “Hear me! the Franks have heard me, and the Alemanni;” but he soon discovered that he was now engaged with more obstinate and implacable enemies; and though he exerted the powers of oratory to persuade them to live in concord, or at least in peace, he was perfectly satisfied, before he dismissed them from his presence, that he had nothing to dread from the union of the Christians.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Giving us a brilliantly provocative model of how a text can be discussed against its own expectations, this book will prove highly productive for literary studies.
The Times Literary Supplement
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So bold an enterprise, so boldly undertaken, is bound to provoke not merely thought but dissent.
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However, his deeply felt and meticulously researched rhetoric conveyed in all his books is hard hitting, provocative and sagacious.
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Here the key is provocative questions or ideas that linger in their minds.
Christianity Today
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The walkout was provoked by a monitoring system BA wants to introduce.
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His increasingly authoritarian style of leadership has provoked some concern about the future of democracy in the country.
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For all you Mc-haters out there, Denver may be passing provocative legislation that will financially "penalize" builders of mega-sized houses.
July 2007
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Either Quinn knew just what he was doing or he was going to provoke the kidnapper into putting down the phone.
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The more scripted traditional Tibetan songs and dances provoke stronger reactions.
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For several generations the headmaster, who was the subordinate officer of the provost, had been an Eton colleger and scholar of King's College, Cambridge.
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As they wait for assistance to have the man taken into custody, they studiously ignored taunts and provocations and remained astonishingly polite throughout.
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She says her illustration of a frenzied cat with a serpentine body always provoked immense laughter from children.
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This quietly provocative documentary cuts right to the heart of America's most contentious issue.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sir, he is rash and very sudden in choler, and haply may strike at you: provoke him, that he may; for even out of that will I cause these of Cyprus to mutiny, whose qualification shall come into no true taste again but by the displanting of Cassio.
Act II. Scene I. Othello, the Moor of Venice
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The compensation has provoked claims of misusing public funds and demeaning the value of a disabled person's life.
Times, Sunday Times
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He could face a further two games out if found guilty of improper conduct for his provocative celebration.
The Sun
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It makes for a funny and thought-provoking series.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have evited striking you in your ain house under muckle provocation, because I am ignorant how the laws here may pronounce respecting burglary and hamesucken, and such matters; and, besides, I would not willingly hurt ye, man, e'en on the causeway, that is free to us baith, because I mind your kindness of lang syne, and partly consider ye as a poor deceived creature.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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St Matthew-in-the-City Church in Auckland, which erected the billboard, said it had intended to provoke debate.
The Mary and Joseph billboard « Anglican Samizdat
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Stars grace our night sky and provoke our sense of wonder.
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As long as he does nothing wilfully provocative, he has considerable freedom to redefine his personal position on matters of faith and conscience.
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I mean isn't that exactly what the print media and the media more generally should be doing in order to stir up the imagination and to provoke debate within the community?
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Are you trying to provoke me?
Times, Sunday Times
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His belated admission to the ranks of the tenjo-bito provoked some derision and he was commonly spoken of as Gen-sammi (the Minamoto third rank).
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
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But it is provocative and potentially extremely dangerous.
The Sun
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COURBATURER means: donner, causer (être la cause de), provoquer des courbatures. very much used as a "past participle".
Courbature - French Word-A-Day
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And is NASA the ONLY government agency that provokes this kind of emotionalism?
Repugnant Behavior on the Part of One NASA Employee - NASA Watch
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Jaspers's emphasis on the importance of form over the content of psychopathology provokes the authors' ire.
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Since the eighteenth century, sex has not ceased to provoke a kind of generalized discursive erethism.
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Sinn Fein is accused each other of provoking incidents, in violation of the peace agreement.
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One of the soldiers responsible for this act of blatant provocation explained the rationale.
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He is very pious and self-reliant, which is provocative of bigotry and hot temper; and surrounded and approached on all sides by clever and often unscrupulous financiers and speculators, his scutcheon has worn wonderfully well, and his character and reputation passed through many fiery ordeals.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899
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Occasionally he slowed to a near halt, provoking Eng to push him to keep choreographing and to perform adequately.
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The press release provoked furious protests from the Gore camp and other top Democrats.
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At one point, Kirie asks her father about his conversation with the aforementioned spiral fetishist, provoking him to indignantly accuse her of eavesdropping.
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Lesser butlers will abandon their professional being for the private one at the least provocation.
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For the prevention of at least some war, what matters is non-provocation and reassurance by means of defensiveness.
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And, sheer provocation:Does this Benetton poster encourage joyriding?
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This provocative thesis elicits flat denials from both governments.
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But even this melted away: first, under the reflection that if the mysterious fur-merchant wished to remain incognito, he must be extremely provoked with Margaret; (and she rather liked the idea of any body being provoked with Margaret;) and secondly, a further thaw took place on more amiable grounds, when the Duke, laying his hand gently on her arm as she passed from the dining-room, said fondly:
Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
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Indeed all sections of the exhibition struck me as exciting and thought-provoking with the exception of the ceramics section which is mediocre.
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If we now proceed with our analysis of what is to be included in the notion of excitability, we at once discover, that the different actions which can be provoked by the influence of any external agency are essentially of three kinds.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
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2. I bought provolone cheese just so that I could hear the Italian lady behind the counter say "provolone".
Archive 2008-12-01
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It is, of course, deliberately provocative and designed to tempt an unwitting Unionite into criticising his choice of closure before blinding him with the weight and depth of his erudition.
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Provoking a reaction through insults is discourteous.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Discourteous to Wear American Flag Images on Cinco de Mayo?
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In 2003, the military, even under government control, staged a series of provocations that undermined the peace talks.
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Somehow the 6 manages to look different - provocative in a very dynamic way.
The Sun
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“intrinsic” meaning — in Panofsky's terminology — of a work of art cannot be described in terms used by the history of art, but only in terms borrowed from the history of philosophy, of religion, of social structures, of science, and so on, the “iconological method” took for granted and provoked such a collaboration.
ICONOGRAPHY
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No American author had ever dreamed of such ovation before: an ovation not due to any incisive thought, not due to any novelty of his subject-matter, -- but due to the fact that a man born overseas had suddenly appeared among British writers, who could lay hold upon their own resources of sentiment, and inwrap it in language which charmed them by its grace and provoked them by its purity.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
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I didn't feel I could answer the questions in an honest, thought-provoking way.
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Despite its effectiveness, the CWU has capitulated to management demands that originally provoked the strike.
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Well, I don't fight, he beats me up - it's my fault, I provoke him.
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The final product contains newly-composed contemporary songs with reflective and thought-provoking themes.
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Let the sky rain potatoes; let it thunder to the tune of 'Greensleeves'; hail kissing-comfits and snow eringoes; let there come a tempest of provocation, I will shelter me here.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
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In his debut novel he sets out to provoke strong reactions and, given his subject matter, doubtless he will succeed.
