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272 examples of Provoked in a sentence

She's a school teacher, provoked by her students into invoking the candy-man curse.
A few years later, he is working with his friends Sam Dalton (Bruce McGill) and Rodney Bedecker (Wil Wheaton, from Star Trek), when he detects an abnormal movement of the tectonic plates, provoked by Alan's new enterprise.
I really liked this film - it's one of the few films I've seen that has provoked me to think.
I urge everyone to seek out THE GREY ZONE in his or her community, and experience the emotions that are provoked from this historically important film.
Happening to come across his mother's manager, he is provoked to regain his early talent at the piano.
Still, I was not prepared for "The Baron of Arizona," his second film and one that seems to have provoked little critical interest over the years, to be such a disarmingly lucid and entertaining effort.
This film has provoked such discussion amongst all of you, just read the comments, that i'm quite impressed.
The Crusades were a provoked response by Europeans against increasing encroachment of Jihadists into European territory.
I haven't seen it in 30 years but still remember the feelings it provoked.
OK, to the degree that the film provoked me to think and question and puzzle about my frustration and the silent life of these monks, it succeeded.
Films are made for a variety of different reasons but the best that cinema has to offer will invariably provoke an emotional response; and Gregory Wilson's film version of Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door is one of the best examples of a film to do that; and the emotional response that the film provoked in me was anger.
She is not afraid of dying, since she believes she provoked the death of her family in a ghetto.
-- Then again, though it's story could be from a Danielle Steel paperback, the acting was pretentious at its best, and never ever provoked a single feeling in me but awkwardness and embarrassment, it had those spectacular big display scenes Americans like so much, and costumes.
Although this film is rather long (2 hrs 47 mins), I was so provoked by it that the time flew by.
"The Curse of King Tut's Tomb" provoked that exact reaction.
The story is very thought provoked (yes you have to use your brain) the ending forces you to ask questions and the acting across the board is solid, especially Conor Duffy and Travis Schuldt, and as far as Savage goes well, he comes across in a way that I have not seen him in years, like he was made for the role.
The story was beautiful and provoked deep emotions in many sections, but I felt that much of the talent was aimed at displaying the ordinary communication within the family rather than the love of music or whatever passion the main characters may have had for their chosen lives.
His recent flirtation with a plan to bypass Bhutto and declare emergency rule provoked pointed Bush administration criticism.
The Volcker rule (named for former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker) provoked similar arguments.
Less than two decades after the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis ravaged the economy and provoked a social and political upheaval that ended President Suharto’s three-decade-long rule, Indonesia is a member of the G-20 and boasts the world’s 15th highest GDP.
With violent theatrics, Osama bin Laden outraged and provoked the US, driving it to overreact in ways that destroyed its credibility, weakened its alliances in the Muslim world, and ultimately exhausted its military – and, in a sense, its society.
Even worse for financial stability, Papandreou’s announcement of a referendum provoked German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy to break an important taboo.
This being India, the film – which is just beginning its cinematic release in the country, months after it hit Western screens – has also provoked dissent.
The line in the sand that President George W. Bush drew on the night of August 11, warning against Russian air strikes on Tbilisi’s airport and shortly thereafter sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to visit Tbilisi, provoked a split in the Kremlin.
That provoked Israeli retaliation, starting the Gaza end of the crisis that Iran wanted.
In this scenario, a financial panic could indeed be provoked, and both Scotland and the RUK would suffer economically.
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld provoked the world's ire through a mocking disdain for global public opinion.
A Pakistani-sponsored jihadi attack on India’s Parliament in December 2001 nearly provoked all-out war.
No one should be surprised that so contemptuous a French attitude, one utterly disdainful of the Union's Solidarity Pact and competition regulations, provoked a reaction detrimental to France.
That question has provoked much debate over the years, often generating more heat than light.
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