provoke **

In some ways, he might have provoked the whole thing.

But the case has provoked action in Congress to change the law.

For the moment, he was doing nothing to provoke them.

Who is he, to be provoked by one of us?

I'd even provoked them once before, and all they did was run away.

I wanted to see what happened if he was provoked.

But why did she always have to provoke him so?

Would he turn on her if she provoked him too much?

So do not now provoke me to say anything more.

Not the kind of interest I ever wanted to provoke.

It was not clear whether he had done anything to provoke them.

Her questions often provoke me to add or change things.

Now I can think for there's no one to provoke me here.

He has the sense that she is trying to provoke him.

The last thing he wanted to do was provoke this man.

I should know better than to let him provoke me like that, he thought.

For the first time it was me who provoked the break in a relationship.

He made the move to provoke us because there was no other way out for him.

They were less likely to do anything if no one was there to see or provoke them.

Men are easily provoked, even just by looking at women.

John tried to question her once more, but found it difficult to provoke a response.

If his words were designed to provoke, they seemed to have little or no effect.

She was beyond the pain of words and would not be provoked.

They said it would almost certainly provoke a response in Washington.

The report did not say what provoked the officer to fire.