Sentence examples for provoke demonstrations from inspiring English sources
The place she has surprisingly chosen to do it is England, the country where her every appearance used to provoke demonstrations.
Moreover, the officials said, they feared the law enforcement operation would provoke demonstrations in other parts of Puerto Rico, and that local authorities were unprepared for large-scale disruptions.
Macron operates without a strong political base on the left or the right, and when, as is bound to happen, his policy proposals provoke demonstrations in the streets, he will somehow have to find more backbone to stand up for reform than any previous French President has found.
News of the movie, and a trailer on YouTube translated into Arabic, provoked demonstrations across the Muslim world.
Military cruelty has also provoked demonstrations by women, such as the Blue Bra demonstration in December- the largest demonstration by women in Egypt in almost a hundred years.
And last year Bob Geldof, Bono's philanthropist partner in rock activism, provoked demonstrations in Uganda when he suggested that the country's president should not stand for re-election.
The refusal by the Turkish government to help the Syrian Kurds in their hour of need immediately provoked demonstrations by Kurds across Turkey.
The beheading of a South Korean hostage in Iraq provoked demonstrations on Wednesday against plans to send 3,000 more troops to Iraq this summer.
The Taipei museum lent 450 items to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1996, provoking demonstrations in Taiwan over the removal of national treasures.
The pipeline, which has provoked demonstrations on the island and widespread opposition over environmental and safety concerns, would run 92 miles from Peñuelas in the south, across the mountains to the island's northern coast, then east to San Juan.
Walter Russell Mead, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said the current situation could easily plunge Pakistan into chaos, leading to an increase in violence by Islamic fundamentalists or provoking demonstrations by opposition political parties.
