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Beale’s attempt to modernize Lloyd’s culture and technology provoked a “complete backlash right from the beginning,” including a stream of hostile emails and letters, she said.

The long-term rise in beef prices has provoked market participants into a spate of finger-pointing, not all of which is groundless.

This provoked yelps from technocrats who said it was impractical and superfluous.

The rampage, which came after another deadly attack at a Christmas market in Berlin in 2016, provoked a heated debate about the security of the festive installations.

It's not clear what exactly provoked them, as Ferrari did not say.