Sentence examples for provoke fighting from inspiring English sources

In stalemated wars, preliminary talks often provoke fighting to improve negotiating positions.If it is to succeed, this fledgling negotiation must be carefully managed.

In animals in which the male takes on a wholly different appearance during the breeding period, natural selection has eliminated from the female's appearance the "aggressive badges" of males that provoke fighting.

But the same tactics could instead provoke fighting that might spin altogether out of his or anybody's control.Although they make up less than 10% of Kosovo's people, the province's ethnic Serbs, backed by paramilitary forces, are well enough armed to cause a bloodbath in places like Pristina, the regional capital.

Federal judges in San Francisco rejected their free-speech claim on the grounds that the school officials had a reasonable fear that their shirts could provoke fighting or a disruption of the school's activities.

But this has only provoked fighting between the police and militants.

For those who came determined to demonstrate peacefully, the question was how to isolate the radical anarchists who sullied their message by provoking fighting that wounded dozens of demonstrators and the killing of one protester by the police.

And then there are the groups seeking to control the flow of petrol, illegal migrants and drugs along the border areas, a struggle fixated on profits and one that has provoked fighting between rival organisations.

Territory holders similarly showed no aggressive response when presented with exclusive vocal sac pulsations; however, temporally overlapping dynamic bimodal cues provoked fighting behaviour (Narins et al., 2003; Narins, Grabul, Soma, Gaucher, & Hödl, 2005).

Some of the demonstrators were disappointed in calls to wait, saying they would like Mr. Saakashvili and his team to be removed from power immediately, lest they provoke renewed fighting with Russia.

Geagea had been disgraced after provoking fighting with the Palestinians outside Sidon and had been forced to retreat.

On Sunday morning the police attacked a small camp of pro-democracy protesters with tear gas and rubber bullets, but the raid provoked fighting in which the protesters seized control of much of Manama's financial district.