ESPN says it has suspended sportscaster Stephen A Smith for a week because of comments about domestic abuse suggesting women should make sure they don't provoke attacks.
And yet, studies show that most people with asthma — roughly two thirds — do not get vaccinated, in part because many worry that the flu shot itself can worsen asthma and provoke attacks.
If "When We Leave" was going to ruffle feathers anywhere, perhaps it would be in Germany, where honor killings often provoke attacks on Islam and Muslims in the news media.
"I merely said that there is an enormous difference between the state of Israel and the Israelis, just as the government of Berlusconi is different from the Italian people, but that is enough, in Italy, to provoke attacks and falsifications").
Because of concerns that the transfer would provoke attacks by armed groups unhappy with the deal, the official flag-exchange ceremony was moved from a village in the region to the more secure city of Calabar, Nigeria, about 120 miles away.
General Kimmitt said that he thought that the militia had used the fighting on Friday in Najaf as an opportunity to provoke attacks in Al Amara, Nasiriya and Sadr City.
Even more alarming, United Nations officials say, is the possibility that ethnic Serb members of Kosovo's police force could quit and adopt Serbian uniforms, a move that might provoke attacks from hard-line ethnic Albanian groups.
The terrorists actually want to provoke attacks on Arabs or Muslims in the U.S., because if the American communities start going after each other, if we see America fragment, then you destroy that special thing that America stands for.
Georgian activists have accused a pro-Russian group of planning a fake lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pride march to provoke attacks from homophobes in an attempt to destabilise the country before the imminent conclusion of an EU association agreement.
Donald Trump, who had not yet surrounded himself with anti-Islam advisers, tweeted, "The U.S. has enough problems without publicity seekers going out and openly mocking religion in order to provoke attacks and death.
