Sentence examples for provoke confrontations from inspiring English sources

It is equally concerned that radical settlers could provoke confrontations.

"We do not stage demonstrations that provoke confrontations between the power and the people".

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, who won the Nobel peace prize for his human rights work during the dictatorship, had warned that Obama's arrival would coincide with huge marches in commemoration of the victims of the coup, and could even provoke confrontations.

He also said that the removal of settlements would provoke confrontations with settlers and their supporters but that the government was serious about the removals and would go ahead with them.

There's a real risk, too, that if oil prices remain low Chávez will revert to type, seeking to provoke confrontations with Washington in order to distract attention from his domestic economic problems.

According to this view, Mr. Pataki would prefer to let members of the state's Congressional delegation provoke confrontations with the White House, while he privately offers words of encouragement to move the Bush administration in New York's direction.

"On the contrary, they will only provoke confrontation and undermine the foundation and atmosphere for international human rights cooperation".

The president must then announce whether the impeachment should go ahead or not.If Mr Rajapaksa chooses to proceed, it will provoke confrontation.

"It could be of Kurdish interest to provoke confrontation in order to persuade the Americans that if they abandon the Kurds, the consequences would be dire," said Mr. Hiltermann, a senior Iraq analyst at the International Crisis Group.

And perhaps away from Chilton, who needed a minder to stop him getting into trouble in bars such as Trader Dick's: Chilton was not afraid to provoke confrontation, as the stories Gordon tells in his book It Came From Memphis make clear.

The budget he signed earlier this year continued the Albany tradition of increasing spending at a rate faster than inflation, and months after suggesting that he would seek to reopen the budget for midyear spending cuts — a step that could provoke confrontation with the Legislature — Mr. Paterson has made no move to do so.