A wily operator like the justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, must have known that such a flagrant attack on the principle that for justice to be served, it must also be open, would provoke outrage.Mr Clarke now acknowledges that his original plans were far too broad.
Presumably, when the criminals became aware of the soldiers' presence, they opened fire, provoking the army's response.
This level of open dissent provoked the authorities to completely reverse their liberalising stance towards the Sakhalin Koreans; they arrested more than 40 protestors, and in November 1976 deported them, but to North Korea rather than to the South as they desired.
The alternative would be a document that risks provoking open revolt.
Arriving in the UK with "funniest woman in the world" profiles in her wake, Silverman flopped at Hammersmith Apollo, provoking open revolt among the audience when she called time after only 50 minutes on stage.
The program provoked open opposition by the sugarcane companies, which were strongly represented in the Republican Party, but the Socialists tacitly accepted the program.
Public support for the party dropped sharply following the election, and this provoked open revolt and the replacement of Day as leader with Stephen Harper.
After all, quietly gaining access to an off-market listing means less competition in a market where open houses often provoke a stampede.
Video footage of a court bailiff refusing to let journalists and an MP enter the supposedly open court hearing provoked further anger.
Cameron, his old Oxford friend, was obliged to demote him when, as education secretary, his wacky, pseudo-reformist ideas and supercilious posturing provoked open conflict including, fatefully, with the home secretary, Theresa May.
