His frequent appeals to Gujarati chauvinism jar outside the state, and he struggled to maintain decorum when provoked.
He said he was provoked when a crowd in the La Rouge Nightclub shouted "derogatory" comments about him.
Honduras is now in the fifth week of a constitutional crisis that was provoked when then-president Zelaya violated the Honduran constitution.
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Gordon Brown has for many months called for a debate on Britishness, but he could not have anticipated the row the archbishop provoked when he questioned incorporating more religious law into our system.
The generals' ire was provoked when the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, nominated his foreign minister, Abdullah Gul, to replace the strongly secular president, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, who was supposed to have stepped down in May.
In a ground-breaking speech in parliament earlier this month, Mr Erdogan provoked tears when he spoke of the common pain of Turkish and Kurdish mothers who had lost sons in the conflict.
And, with the hosts' lead so slender, the result was in the balance right up until referee Chris Foy's final whistle - a whistle that, when it came, provoked jubilant scenes of relief from the home crowd.
But America is keen for it to take up the issue, partly as a way of holding North Korea to account for its treaty breaches, but also to ensure that, unlike in 1993 when North Korea last provoked a nuclear crisis, its neighbours will not simply stand back and leave America to do all the negotiating.
Behind the Candelabra's director Steven Soderbergh provoked a fierce debate when he said he had to take the film to the cable station HBO because Hollywood's studios believed it was "too gay".
But the Portuguese had hoped that if national leaders signed the treaty in person, the symbolism of the event would draw a line under the crisis provoked in 2005, when French and Dutch voters rejected the original constitution.
But the shift towards synthetic fuel has provoked criticism, because when such fuel is made from coal and then burned in an aircraft engine, more greenhouse gases are emitted overall than would be produced if the aircraft simply burned conventional fuel derived from oil.
When he wasn't, they provoked the IRS. His downfall and the near-total eclipse of his reputation were the sad result.
When he wasn't, they provoked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
In his testimony, Mr. Blankfein at one point provoked laughter from the gallery when a prosecutor asked him why it was unusual that the company was losing money in the middle of the fourth quarter of 2008.
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And he provoked controversy in his own constituency when he stopped holding surgeries in 1997 after being assaulted.
Last week, an Italian magazine provoked uproar in the UK media when it published pictures of a bikini-clad Catherine on vacation, with her "baby bump" visible.
Mr Brown provoked jeers from the Conservative benches when he pointed out that Mr Cameron had given a "cast-iron guarantee" to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
Peter Harvey, 51, was provoked by pupils during a lesson in July 2009 when they called him a "psycho".
Dick Cheney, George W. Bush's running mate, provoked the anger of many Republican activists last week when he took a gentle, even sympathetic line on gay relationships, during his televised debate with his Democratic opponent, Joe Lieberman.
Late last year, it provoked a row between the French and German governments, when, amid mounting losses, it pulled out of Germany's Mobilcom.
The volatile Republican presidential contest has provoked feverish talk in the media and the blogosphere about a brokered or contested convention in late August, when 2, 286 Republican delegates gather in Tampa, Fla.
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