Sentence examples for because it would provoke from inspiring English sources

I can't perform my vocation because it would provoke dissent in the diocese as I'm such an active campaigner, and it's very sad.

I wouldn't expose them to even Mapplethorpe's most cheerful penises because it would provoke more questions (never mind sniggers) than I feel it's currently necessary to answer.

At the White House, the spokesman Jay Carney said that military intervention was not the right course of action at this time because it would provoke wider carnage and chaos.

The administration has been unwilling to do that because they believe it would provoke Beijing to erect trade barriers.

It just seemed Orwell-esque that while one government body was denying us a right because they thought it would provoke racism, other areas government of government were asking us to do antiracism work on their behalf.

Despite growing dissent in the party's hard-left wing and its activist base, most Syriza leaders, as well as most of the public, oppose an exit because of the economic troubles it would provoke, at least in the short term.

He said the United States had opposed Israel's invasion of Beirut, both because "we believed it wrong in principle and for fear that it would provoke further fighting".

It would provoke a great deal of anxiety.

"We knew it would provoke them," he said.

To remove it would provoke a constitutional crisis".

If this were only a technical dispute, though, it would provoke far less rancor.