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.