Sentence examples for if not provoke from inspiring English sources

The piece comes fully assembled to titillate audiences, if not provoke debate, about the lengths that people will go for success.

Los Angeles is rediscovering its sense of civic ambition even as Trump seems ready to turn the country inward and exploit, if not provoke, tensions with foreign powers.

His lawyer's letter suggests that Mr. Wildstein was irritated, if not provoked, by Mr. Christie's dismissiveness.

As soon as the six-month ceasefire ended, with Hamas refusing to lay down their weapons and resuming their attacks on Israeli civilians, it was plain that Israel was being invited, if not provoked into, an operation to cut the head off the hydra.

All horses have a violent side and will not show it if not provoked.

But today's vote, even if it does not provoke new elections, could break up the governing coalition and create a chaotic interlude at a diplomatically inopportune moment.

This will be an odd economic crisis if it does not provoke social convulsions and industrial unrest of one form or another.

You are the only person in the game who breaks anything or blows anything up, and even the police and the gangs will generally leave you alone if you do not provoke them.

Further investigation will be required to better understand these interactions and their significance in therapeutic responses, while controlled necrosis might be therapeutically beneficial if it does not provoke frank and dangerous systemic inflammation.

If a revelation does not provoke outrage, and the wrongdoers go unpunished, he wrote, "then the continuous revelation of scandals has the exact opposite result: defeatism, the feeling of weakness, the fatalistic acceptance of the rule of the powerful".

My experience is that these observations, if presented sensitively, do not provoke horror or rejection in either patients or their relatives, not least because they are consistent with the patients' and relatives' own experiences.