Provoke
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241 examples of Provoke in a sentence
And if Trump continues to
provoke
China by communicating with Taiwan and questioning America’s “One China” policy, regional tensions will escalate.
Japan is a hush-hush society, where everyone is supposed to guess what is going on, and the media are careful not to
provoke
social division.
This follows from Hamas leaders’ frequent statements since the 2008 Gaza war that they do not want to
provoke
another Israeli attack, which could cost them their governing position.
Regardless of the details of the ultimate deal, the risk is that the ghost of Russia’s bailout of Cyprus in 2011 could
provoke
severe side effects across Southern Europe, both for governments’ borrowing costs and for small savers.
To the extent that you are cc’ed, you can also see patterns among your friends or colleagues: Which topics
provoke
huge amounts of stress or argument?
But an increased American presence could
provoke
radical groups, while requiring defense resources that are needed to support US interests in East and Southeast Asia.
But that time is ending, with energy prices rising and the Belarusian economy facing shocks that could
provoke
unrest and pose a threat to Lukashenko.
The aim of political terrorist groups, such as Al Qaeda, is to
provoke
retaliation and maximize publicity for their cause.
Nevertheless, China’s leaders do not dare to pursue bold measures of any kind, for fear that deviating from the status quo will
provoke
rival camps and vested interests, with serious consequences.
Even so, the ICC prosecutor’s application for an arrest warrant for al-Bashir – announced this past July – has yet to
provoke
a widely-feared crackdown on humanitarian organizations.
Alternatively, MBS’s authoritarian tendencies and embarrassing foreign-policy failures might
provoke
internal opposition, both from the traditional elites he has vowed to decimate, and from the sizeable Shia minority in the Kingdom’s Eastern Province, whose members may look to Iran as a protector.
Where the impetus to “cover” comes welling up from below, from family and community, such veiling practices
provoke
countervailing state actions.
Several European countries now seem content to force Greece into an outright default and
provoke
its exit from the euro.
It would push the Arab Spring movements in a decidedly anti-Western direction, unify Islamists and secularists in a reinvigorated hatred of Israel, and
provoke
a spate of terror attacks both inside Israel and on Western interests in Arab countries with Shia populations.
Now is not the time to
provoke
Iran, but rather to tend to Syria’s troubles before it is too late – for example, by publicly offering Assad a way out of the country that will safeguard the minority Alawite community if he is toppled or forced to flee.
If the Syria situation is ignored, its consequences could
provoke
Israeli or Iranian action, setting the region aflame and triggering a global depression.
The fusion of Iran’s nuclear program (and Iran’s hegemonic ambitions) with the situation in Iraq and with Hezbollah in Lebanon will lead to a “New Middle East” which, in all likelihood, will
provoke
a major confrontation.
Clowns mostly seek to provoke, and this can be healthy.
An end to the euro would indeed
provoke
an immense crisis.
Ordinarily, such pronouncements would
provoke
outcries of dismay, and of real or pretended indignation.
And anyone questioning government policy on Brexit is routinely described as an “enemy of the People,” whose treachery will
provoke
“blood in the streets.”
In contrast, applications by clinical faculty and women
provoke
far more discussion.
Why do such moderate actions, rooted in the Chinese moral tradition,
provoke
such dramatic repression?
Conservatives want not only to silence the reformers, but to
provoke
confrontation.
The question is not one of popularity alone – after all, Mozart was popular in his day, and Shakespeare’s plays attracted the poor as well as the rich – but of mass culture’s refusal to challenge and
provoke.
Its ultimate ambition is to
provoke
a clash of civilizations between the West and the Muslim world.
A boycott would merely
provoke
nationalist hostility in China.
If the US is not careful, our own new nuclear posture could
provoke
the very nuclear-proliferation activities we are seeking to prevent.
Many Russians believe that the Russian apartment bombings of September 1999, which killed almost 300 people, were plotted by elements of Russia’s own security services to
provoke
retaliation against the Chechens and propel Putin into the presidency on the back of a popular war.
Some art is meant to provoke, transgress, and push boundaries.
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