Sentence examples for cause an incident from inspiring English sources

Actions by either country could raise tensions and cause an incident.

There is little in Huntsman's sober, responsible, and ideologically moderate career in government to suggest he would deliberately cause an incident to get himself booted from China — and at this late date in his tenure there it would likely be seen as a stunt — but then again, Presidential aspirations do funny things to people.

"I apologized for unintentionally causing an incident, which detracted from a hard-fought match and James's outstanding performance".

In Maiduguri, the capital of the north-eastern Borno state, enforcement of the helmet law caused an incident that would spark a violent conflict between the police and members of a radical Islamist sect that was then unknown to the world.

Fair play, if I feel I've gone too late I'd hold my hand up to admit I've caused an incident.

The child themselves may have caused an incident that may have severely injured another child and they themselves, their injuries were of a minor nature.

(Physician 2) This physician talked of a hazard that can affect more patients than just an individual patient assigned to a practitioner as being worthy of reporting since the possibility of causing an incident is foreseeable.

"If we did, we might accidentally step onto Croatian territory and cause an international incident".

There was a time when a Sinead O'Connor performance was notable if it didn't cause an international incident.

Mrs. Clinton has said that she was reluctant to cause an international incident by denouncing Mrs. Arafat immediately.

Shortly after Piazza was hit, Dan Evans, the Dodgers' general manager, told Phillips that the teams might cause an international incident if they continued the fight in Mexico.