"provoke" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Like them, he assumes that seeing is enough to provoke indignation and action.
- But it was a November article that raised the issue that eventually provoked legal action.
- He ridiculed Vietnamese people in an attempt to provoke action:
- These conditions provoked great discontent and eventually militant action.
- Whatever it is, though, it is not going to provoke much direct action by viewers.
- I hope that your reporting will provoke both fitting outrage and corrective action by our legislators.
- The bid-rigging allegations probably would have provoked action from existing regulators had they known about them.
- Again, I ask why do we have to wait for a crisis to provoke action?
- But the case has provoked action in Congress to change the law.
- The speech itself alarmed the communist states and provoked further action.
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