"It's a play on the Italian word and it was also linked to the desire to provoke emotions, to provoke aspirations, to make the car exciting and fun, " he said.
But passenger Diane Deferrari said there was nothing to provoke police to fire.
The conversations in Brand Thinking are meant to provoke, to push the boundaries of the role brand plays in society.
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But the discovery that the bug has the ability to survive milk processing is likely to provoke calls to research the issue.
"Such acts of terrorism are designed to provoke reaction and to create tensions, " Ms Ashton said.
He is at his weakest when he seeks merely to provoke rather than to convince.
But en route to its kitchen-sink climax, "Man" manages to both amuse and provoke, to cleave to convention and promote ideas.
After an evening attack on a base by a small group of insurgent fighters, Afghan soldiers set out at dawn, hoping to provoke the Taliban to attack them, so they could be found and destroyed.
Dave Hickey, a maverick art historian and critic who lives in Las Vegas and who likes to provoke, compares Rockwell to Hogarth, Vermeer and Frans Hals.
Further research into gliadin found it was made up of even smaller fragments already known to provoke cells in the body to attack the intestine.
She disputed the magazine's position that it just wants to provoke laughter and express its right to free speech.
He tried to provoke a debate in a speech to the Royal Institute of International Affairs on July 17th.
Panics invariably provoke investors to make the wrong moves.
The Columbine killings of 1999 failed to provoke any shift in Americans' attitudes to guns.
On the one hand, some of the piquetero leaders want to provoke acts of repression, in order to create martyrs.
There is only one sure-fire way to provoke an inflation shock and that is to close the Straits of Hormuz, or otherwise cause Middle Eastern oil to cease, temporarily.
As in 2006 and 2009, in near-identical language, the foreign ministry expressed "firm opposition" to the test, called on Pyongyang not to provoke further, and urged everyone else to keep calm and carry on.
Anti-spying solution: Try not to provoke any tech-savvy people into wanting to spy on you?
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The third element likely to provoke debate in the Lords is a proposal to prohibit election candidates in Wales from standing on regional lists and in individual constituencies.
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By consistently providing just enough information to be confusing, HealthTap may hope to provoke a significant number of users into paying to see a participating doctor and, presumably, persuade a significant number of participating doctors into paying HealthTap for that referral.
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After many failed attempts to provoke a reaction by playing recordings of cricket song to them, she realised that they were actually more interested in her own footfalls than in the airborne music of their fellow crickets.
"We have to be realistic and not to provoke new crises and new injustices and new war crimes by trying to deal with history and with old crimes, " Mr Djindjic said in London.
Mr Berlusconi added that he had believed her and had telephoned police because he did not want to provoke "a diplomatic incident", but that the call had been limited to "seeking information".
Apple may not want to provoke a price war in the tablet market, where it sees plenty of growth to come.
As I've written before, this has the ability, on any given day, to provoke a drain of liquidity from the Greek banking system, forcing the Bank of Greece to ask for levels of Emergency Liquidity Assistance that the ECB just cannot countenance.
Tory backbenchers, knowing that the Lib Dems are unlikely to provoke a snap election while they are languishing at around 10% in the polls, implore Mr Cameron to override their concerns.
The Conservative rebellion in the Commons on Monday night continues to provoke coverage in the papers.
Earlier, Ms Evans warned the jury that the case was "likely to provoke strong emotions".
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"The History Boys" doesn't aim to inspire, but to excite, to stimulate, to provoke.
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