Sentence examples for provoke a further from inspiring English sources

By contrast, if an investment bank's share price tumbles, it not only wrecks people's confidence but also can lead to credit-rating downgrades, which provoke a further decline in the stock price, and so on.

He decided to take up a two-year contract with Middlesex rather than a job offer from the accountancy firm Pricewaterhouse, and started getting changed next to the county's new overseas signing, the Australian batsman Justin Langer, who was to provoke a further reassessment in his approach to the game.

Speaking in Russia's upper chamber of parliament on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov condemned "radicals in Kiev and some other capitals" for trying to provoke a "further escalation" in the conflict.

Which, yes, okay, could be true, but would then provoke a further rung of questioning as to whether or not nightclubs in Swansea normally hang art on their walls, and if so what art?

This not only risks giving the adherents a kind of counter-cultural glamour they formerly lacked, but may also provoke a further hardening of their views, or even a violent reassertion on the part of the adherents themselves (or those who take offence on their behalf).

Such a 'vicious cycle' hypothesis would predict an exponential rather than linear trajectory of increasing mtDNA mutation burden, as the initial mutations would provoke a further mutational 'burst'burst

And the weakening economy will lead to more job cuts, provoking a further cycle of contraction.

That in turn provoked a further barrage of rockets out of Gaza.

Israeli security forces have been tasked with clamping down on unrest without provoking a further escalation of violence.

And when the wealthy left town, the cartel began targeting doctors and other middle-class professionals for kidnappings, provoking a further, middle-class exodus from the city.

In November 1982, soon after Jaruzelski had provoked a further storm by banning Solidarity, he agreed to an interview with the Guardian, perhaps the first time he had been prepared to meet a western journalist since the declaration of martial law.