Sentence examples for cannot provoke from inspiring English sources
You cannot provoke, you cannot insult the faith of others.
You cannot provoke, you cannot insult other people's faith, you cannot mock it".
"You cannot provoke … You cannot make fun of the faith of others," the pope said.
But, like Chávez, he knows that he cannot provoke the United States too much.
"One cannot provoke; one cannot insult other people's faith; one cannot make fun of faith," he said.
Such open and brave behaviour cannot but provoke aggression on the part of less tolerant or less well-mannered members of the society.
Yet his officials also need to go on making it just as clear to Taiwan that it cannot recklessly provoke China and then expect to have others defend it.
Indeed, just as America must make it clear to China that force will not be tolerated, so it must go on making it clear to Taiwan that it cannot deliberately provoke China and then expect to have others defend it.
Arming Ukraine cannot possibly provoke Russian aggression, as Russian aggression has escalated even as Ukraine has sought peace and received no lethal weapons.
British historians have echoed Napoleon's criticism, judging that Centurion was at Linois's mercy and that he had failed to destroy her, in words of William Laird Clowes, because of his "half-hearted and timid action... [that] cannot but provoke censure.
