Sentence examples for by provoking it from inspiring English sources

"We should bleed America economically by provoking it to continue in its massive expenditure on its security, for the weak point of America is its economy, which has already begun to stagger due to the military and security expenditure," Mr. Zawahri said, according to the SITE translation quoted in news reports.

While they oppose violence, they say that some of the violent protesters, who form what the dedicated demonstrators call the Black Bloc, for their dark clothing, want to force capitalism to show its real and ugly face by provoking it with violence; others simply come along for the fun of banging heads.

Their argument goes something like this: The regime has hijacked the opposition's agenda by provoking it to demonstrate against a series of increasingly absurd, archaic and aggressive measures.

Provoking it by sending U.S. Marines into neighboring Georgia to train its army and by talking up membership of the former Soviet republic in NATO, is clearly one of the dumbest ideas in the post Cold War era.

An editorial thanks the millions of people who have declared themselves as Charlie in the past few days - but it says it wants no more of the past insinuations that by provoking Muslims, it has somehow brought trouble on itself.

A report by the People's Union for Civil Liberties stated, "Major effect of media under long period has been to feed on the prevalent anti-Muslim prejudices of its Hindu readership and provoke it further by sensationalizing, twisting, mangling and distorting news or what passes for it".

This was provoked, it says, by South Korea's decision to join the American-led Proliferation Security Initiative, a group that aims to block shipments of weapons of mass destruction and related contraband.

If I were in the GOP's shoes, I'd gamble on being correct about how the roll-out of Obamacare is going to go, then stop trying to end it by provoking crises and just let it fail naturally.

"Our close air support has been so devastating with the Taliban that they are trying to stop us using it" by provoking situations in which civilians are caught up in fighting and killed, he said.

I think people will be shocked by it, provoked by it, but not necessarily offended".

It allows us to question our sense that something is obviously true by provoking us to ask whether it would appear so obvious if our upbringing or character had been different.