But the Greek South, goaded and inflamed by its government, rejected it.

Pulling your gun, you just goaded him into trying to get you.

China s government has subsidized, protected, and goaded its firms to ensure rapid industrialization, thereby altering the global division of labor in its favor.

Increasingly loud complaints about deteriorating air quality have goaded Hong Kong and Guangdong into embarking on a joint program in which a series of monitoring stations now provides emissions data.

Krugman s heavy pounding of Chicago School economics goaded Cochrane, a professor of finance, into some bad tempered counter punching on the university s Web site, much of which consisted of a personal attack on Krugman s scientific integrity.

Socrates, Plato s teacher, famously goaded the Athenian authorities by maintaining that he was wiser than the Oracle at Delphi, who claimed to be the wisest, because he, unlike most people (including the Athenian authorities), knew that he did not know anything.