Sentence examples for provoke intervention from inspiring English sources

That could split the country or provoke intervention by the army.The government has neither exerted authority nor achieved compromise.

But there is every reason to believe it was used not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces, to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.

According to Mr. Piccinin — who described himself as a previously "fierce supporter of the Free Syrian Army in their just struggle for democracy" — at one stage during their captivity, he and Mr. Quirico overheard rebels saying that the deadly gas attacks last month had been carried out by anti-Assad forces to frame the government and provoke intervention.

Dr. Danan, for example, said President Obama's warning that any use of chemical weapons by Syrian forces would be "a red line" that could provoke intervention amounted to a "green light" for Mr. Assad to use as much conventional force as possible.

He reiterated Russia's opinion that the gas attack of 21 August was probably carried out by opposition forces "to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons".

While Syria has now admitted to holding stockpiles of chemical weapons, Mr Putin argued in the editorial that the 21 August attack was probably carried out by opposition forces "to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons".

In 1825 Ibrāhīm began a victorious campaign in the Morea in southern Greece, where his military success provoked intervention by the European powers and brought on the destruction of the Ottoman and Egyptian fleets at the Battle of Navarino (October 20, 1827).

It also called for the immediate release of the 49 Turkish nationals seized by ISIS from the consulate in Mosul, saying this risked alienating a powerful neighbour and provoking intervention.

The Government, being powerless, is trying to excite partisans to provoke American intervention against the revolutionaries.

The Kremlin has continued to argue that the chemical attack was likely a ploy by rebels to provoke international intervention.

Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, this week warned outside powers against arming the opposition, whose real aim he claimed was to provoke outside intervention.