Provoke
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Their actions on one side would
provoke
the other side’s hardline response, fueling an upward spiral of distrust that strengthened the extremes in both camps.
But it is also true that Iran’s emergence as the ninth nuclear power would
provoke
a regional and global upheaval, dangerously aggravate fears and suspicions, and confront the international community with a profound crisis of vision and policy.
The Rohingya have already been stripped of their Myanmar citizenship, and a raft of new and proposed legislation that would further marginalize Islam seems certain to
provoke
further violence.
Terrorists hope to create a climate of fear and insecurity that will
provoke
us to harm ourselves by undercutting the quality of our own liberal democracy.
Indeed, Iranian hardliners may welcome an Israeli strike, and even seek to
provoke
it, as a means of rallying the Iranian population behind them.
Moreover, a nuclear Iran would also be perceived as a threat by its other neighbors, which would likely
provoke
a regional arms race and further fuel regional volatility.
At a time when a slowing economy is creating greater uncertainty for China, it cannot afford to
provoke
tensions with the US over anything that is not in its direct interests, such as its territorial claims in the South China Sea.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has rarely missed an opportunity to
provoke
Japan’s Korean critics, whether by visiting Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine, where the “souls” of 14 Class A war criminals are interred, or embracing revisionist critiques of previous official apologies for Japanese aggression.
When asked why they do not clarify their claims, my Chinese interlocutors sometimes say that to do so would require difficult political and bureaucratic compromises that would
provoke
domestic nationalists.
A full-scale invasion might well
provoke
Iraq’s own Kurdish guerrillas into a prolonged and bloody battle with Turkish forces that can only undermine support for Erdogan’s government at home and abroad.
A lamb, after all, does not
provoke
a bear.
This injustice would
provoke
revolt and revolution, producing a new, better, fairer, more prosperous, and far more egalitarian system.
He will provoke, obstruct, ignore, and assign blame.
The Chinese soldiers allegedly assumed firing positions, leading the Indians to withdraw in order not to
provoke
a shooting match.
China, with the Olympics looming, is unlikely to initiate a clash, and India has no desire to
provoke
its neighbor, which humiliated it in a brutal border war in 1962 that left China in possession of 23,200 square kilometers of Indian territory.
Look for China to
provoke
more incidents once the Olympics are over.
These measures will almost certainly
provoke
retaliation from China.
Though Kelly called Sessions to tell him that his job was safe, Republican senators, concerned that Trump might remove him during the August recess, established a procedure that would prevent Trump from appointing an interim attorney-general to fire Mueller, and warned that such a move would
provoke
a constitutional crisis.
No inflation shocks that might
provoke
the Fed to slam on the breaks loom.
Another risk is that reform attempts could
provoke
a political backlash that would be harmful to long-term investment.
Hard times
provoke
aggressive, vindictive, and intolerant attitudes, and Roma have become scapegoats in this economic crisis.
A few days later, Hezbollah followed suit and abducted another two Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese-Israeli border making it clear that Hamas and Hezbollah had coordinated their actions to
provoke
a large-scale confrontation with Israel.
If Russia can
provoke
America – whether by granting political asylum to the “traitor” Edward Snowden, for example, or by resisting Western diplomacy in the Middle East – it is not because it has become a great power once again, but simply because America is no longer the great power that it once was.
I knew this would
provoke
the sympathy of her relatives, and they would scrape together their meager resources to ensure a proper funeral.
They could
provoke
confrontations, directed not only against me, but also against their own leaders who had signed the Roundtable agreements.
But trade in illegal narcotics did not seriously threaten Mexico’s stability or
provoke
conflict with the United States until the mid-1980’s, when Colombian cocaine began to flood across Mexico to the US.
America has spent roughly $800 billion in direct military outlays in Afghanistan, and indeed has been at war there almost non-stop since the CIA covertly intervened in 1979, helping to
provoke
the Soviet invasion of that country.
People turn on their televisions and watch in disbelief as their elected representatives shout slogans, wave placards, scream abuse, and
provoke
adjournments – indeed, do almost anything but what they were elected to do.
Moreover, Europe must build up tools for strategic analysis, assessment, and forecasting to
provoke
and nourish public debate.
For a democratic-minded president to co-habit (as the French call it) with the very man who sought to sabotage Ukraine’s last presidential ballot would, I knew,
provoke
institutional paralysis and political chaos.
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