Sentence examples for may provoke or from inspiring English sources

Root canals, tooth extractions or bite disturbances may provoke or be associated with the development of CDH due to brain abscess [20, 21].

The release of NA by the LC may provoke or facilitate dynamic reorganization of neural networks through changes in synaptic strength (Bouret and Sara 2005).

The U.K. government then announced that in light of the unrest it has decided to revoke some arms export licenses to Bahrain stating that "licenses will not be issued when officials judge that there is a risk that the exports may provoke regional or internal conflicts or be used to facilitate internal repression".

Impairment of double strand break repair through the homologous recombination pathway (Wachters et al, 2003) or futile mismatch repair cycles at replication forks (because of precursor imbalance), or both may provoke apoptosis or result in mitotic catastrophe.

New developments in science or novel applications of technology may provoke skepticism or resistance from a public that perceives them as allied to elite interests.

This may provoke anxiety or deter from beneficial surgery.

Your ethnicity may provoke curiosity or even mild hostility.

The Coalition has now passed laws to exempt the private companies from these new requirements because of fears the information may provoke kidnappings or disadvantage the companies in commercial transactions.

In a report to be published in the journal Acta Astronautica, Vitaly Adushkin at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow writes that impacts from space junk, especially on military satellites, posed a "special political danger" and "may provoke political or even armed conflict between space-faring nations.

People are afraid that satire, precisely because it causes us to laugh, causes humiliation, which in turn may provoke anger or even violence.

Therefore it is reasonable to expect that new messages about overdiagnosis will not necessarily be immediately understood by everyone and may provoke confusion or scepticism, as we found to some extent in our study.