1.   Although Kono is Japanese, the soul-searching that his case has provoked applies to any country with a free press.

2.   As much as the case provoked disruption, he insists that it has had benefits.

3.   In Britain, the case provoked anger at the parents as employers.

4.   The case provoked a national outcry.

5.   The case provoked renewed debate among Americans over the fairness of capital punishment.

6.   The case provoked angry editorials in newspapers across the land and heated debate on the talk show circuit.

7.   Proponents of assisted suicide hope the case will provoke the federal government to regulate euthanasia.

8.   The case has provoked outrage both in Russia and abroad.

9.   The case provoked outrage in Canada, where officials revealed that Knyazev had been stopped twice before for driving under the influence of alcohol.

10.   The charges were later dropped -- but the case had already provoked international concern about media freedom in Russia.