Though its reports sometimes provoke outrage, the ombudsman is well known and liked.

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He was sentenced to 18 weeks in prison last September after admitting two "trolling" charges - a term used to describe the trend of anonymously seeking to provoke outrage by posting insults and abuse online.

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Even neutered bodies, however, can provoke outrage.

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But to liberalise prices would provoke outrage.

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UN, but to do so now would provoke howls of outrage at home.

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When Lillehei was lucky, his gold jewelry, Jaguar XKE and late nights in jazz dives did little more than provoke the envy and outrage of his peers.

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In recent days commentators and campaigners here have looked, almost enviously, towards India, wondering what it might take to provoke a similar sense of outrage - and angrily debating whether outrage itself is enough, and who, or what, to blame.

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Moreover, the chances are that it would evoke outrage throughout the Middle East (although Arab governments would privately rejoice at the event), and probably provoke an Iranian reaction that could involve a very large war as the Israelis are attacked by, and retaliate against, Iran's proxies in the Levant and throughout the world.

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