Snyder advances a provocative thesis (though in workmanlike prose laced with far too much poli-sci jargon).

Its provocative thesis is that the age of electronic voting machines has actually made election fraud easier.

They do not consider Greider's provocative thesis that overproduction and the imbalance of supply and demand might destabilize the global economy.

I began this column with the provocative thesis that software isn't anywhere near bloated enough.

A 17th-century "Star Is Born," though with interestingly convoluted sexual politics and a provocative historical thesis.

This is a marvelously provocative thesis that ought to generate some discussion.

Even so, he said, American foes seem likely to seize on the paper and amplify the provocative thesis.

That is a provocative thesis but one which the authors fail to persuasively sustain.

That the two cultural impulses were linked - positively - is a provocative thesis.

The idea of how far anyone should go in revealing the truth is a remarkably provocative thesis for me.