At any other club, the £72m lavished on Eliaquim Mangala and Nicolas Otamendi would have provoked an inquiry.
The chief of staff of the German armed forces resigned over accusations that the German military withheld information about the civilian deaths, and the case provoked an inquiry in Germany's Parliament.
In a match against Middlesex in 1924 at Sheffield, the hostility of the crowd provoked an MCC inquiry which found that Yorkshire bowler Abe Waddington had incited the spectators.
Last year's scandal provoked a government inquiry into racism on university campuses.
A whirlwind ensued that has provoked a national inquiry into racism in rugby programs, charges of coverup and demands for the resignation of the Springboks' coach.
The circumstances provoked a state inquiry that led to a scathing report, accusing Mount Sinai of providing "woeful" postoperative care by poorly supervised medical residents who were in charge of too many patients.
But since Free Trade Hall is in Manchester barely a two-hour railway ride from the capital the national media barely noticed the proposals.Fortunately, enough of a hue and cry was generated locally to provoke a public inquiry and ultimate rejection of the scheme.
For three weeks running, Mr. Cronje has been a Page 1 staple, the center of a whirlwind that has provoked a national inquiry into racism in rugby programs from professional sports to elementary-school teams, charges of cover-up and demands for the resignation of the Springboks coach.
News of the brutality at the Marshalsea finally provoked a parliamentary inquiry, which uncovered atrocious conditions: one defaulting prisoner was locked up with two dead bodies; he stayed with them for six days, "in which time the Vermin devoured the flesh from their faces, eat the Eyes out of the Heads of the carcasses, which were bloated, putrifyed, and turned green".
And now its political activities have provoked an array of inquiries.
