provoke

Examples of provoking

provoking
The work itself exhibits elements of the recent provoking occasion as well as of the old memory.
At the same time, he also displayed characteristic political cunning, knowing just how far he could go without provoking a destructive counter-reaction.
In terms of the social information processing variables, attributions of sorrow to provoking peers were a positive predictor of physical victimization.
The real-time heat of live performing is an especially handy crucible for raising awareness and provoking people to action.
Structures are important ways of articulating ideas, or of provoking ideas.
There is some suggestion that these forces are provoking a move away from the gender regime associated with conservative-capitalist welfare states.
In some villages, one candidacy was so weak that its supporters refrained from provoking any fight.
The chapters generally aim to and succeed in presenting some novel angle, addressing some important phenotypic question, or provoking reconsideration of our assumptions.
It has been proposed that adverse life events involving loss or humiliation are particularly potent in provoking depressive episodes.
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