Sentence examples for provoke overreaction from inspiring English sources

They planned a boycott of white merchants coupled with large marches that they expected would provoke overreaction by city officials and show the world the depth of white resistance.

Terror seeks to provoke violence, provoke rage, provoke fear, provoke overreaction, provoke tribalism and knee-jerk reactions.

Studies of past outbreaks have shown that lethal diseases that lack a cure tend to provoke overreactions.

Jihadi groups intend their atrocities to provoke an overreaction, and very few governments can resist falling into the trap.

The operation is so called because it was intended to provoke an overreaction, bleeding the resources of a cash-strapped nation.

But he could provoke an overreaction by which America weakened itself".

And like the U.S., terrorist attacks on the homeland sometimes provoke official overreaction.

Like in the U.S., these kinds terrorist attacks on the homeland sometimes will provoke official overreaction or create unintentional casualties.

HIs book The Apostates: When Muslims Leave Islam is out in November, published by Hurst & Co. Roberto Dassoni is a feltmaker and phothatapher.

Terrorism is an autoimmune disease; its purpose is to cause harm by provoking an overreaction.

"If on the other hand we do too much, we could risk provoking an overreaction".