Sentence examples for it would provoke from inspiring English sources

Bratislava was wary of such a move, fearing it would provoke its own dispute with Gazprom.

Hackers downloaded thousands of cables from the E.U.'s diplomatic communications network, revealing anxieties about the Trump administration and fears that it would provoke Iran into reviving its nuclear program.

The Met's trustees were afraid it would provoke public outrage and Bryson Burroughs, its director, thought Picasso a madman.

And if they admitted that the White House had been wrong initially, that its position on transferring power had shifted, it would provoke still another set of headlines — all negative.

Yet for all the wrong-headedness of that plan, for all its woeful under-estimation of the gut feeling of revulsion it would provoke in the average English football fan, there was a seed of common sense to it.

It would provoke a great deal of anxiety.

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

To remove it would provoke a constitutional crisis".

It would provoke extreme violence, even a bloody region-wide conflict.

It would provoke new thinking about how the British economy works.

The effort to make a new temporary agreement is not worth the trouble it would provoke.