The phrase "as to provoke a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an action or situation that is intended to incite a reaction or response.
Example: "His comments were designed as to provoke a strong reaction from the audience."
Alternatives: "in order to incite a" or "so as to stimulate a".
For its part, Hezbollah could still claim to be the only force actually fighting the Israelis, without having gone so far as to provoke a deadly Israeli airstrike on Lebanon that might hurt its popularity domestically.
Its refracted dialogue, its evanescent scene-setting, the wary dance of its characters and their obliquely recalled memories of erotic love and death are meant to seduce you with life's most titillating mysteries as well as to provoke a curiosity about form and content in narrative art.
For rebels, it creates a perverse incentive to escalate ethnic violence so as to provoke an international military response.
The economies of the 10 voting members of the cartel are heavily dependent on oil revenues, and the thinking here seems to be that prices are now favorable to members but not so steep as to provoke an economic slowdown.
Soon, the text was read by this new director, George O'Brien, who wrote to the other directors of "the possibility that the play might offend any section of public opinion so seriously as to provoke an attack on the theatre of a kind that would endanger the continuance of the subsidy".
We need to check the military provocations of the North, but we cannot retaliate in kind or with such aggression so as to provoke an all-out war.
If you have alcohol or drugs going around the party, make sure to clear them from sight so as not to provoke a search.
Most runners run to achieve either or both of these conditions as often as possible — to provoke a kind of Cartesian collapse, mind and body suddenly in anguished or glorious collusion.
Several explanations may be given for this observation: first, the skin receptors are either not adequately stimulated by the high application pressure of the brace so as, in turn, to provoke a CNS response, or their role in controlling single limb balance is less important.
The document was worded so as not to provoke a conservative reaction, but the following spring Richard Cizik, the N.A.E.'s vice-president for governmental affairs, and other N.A.E.
Syrian governor Ummidius Quadratus sent Helvidius Priscus with a legion to repair these outrages; he was recalled so as not to provoke a war with Parthia.
