Sentence examples for provoke resistance from inspiring English sources

Oppressive degrees of rigor at other schools in the network occasionally provoke resistance.

He said that Mr. Arafat wanted merely to provoke resistance to demonstrate to the Bush administration that his task was difficult.

But that likely would provoke resistance because it would entangle other countries or entities that do business with the central bank.

The Pakistani and American forces have been treading gingerly, however, since they are operating for the first time in the Pakistani tribal zones and do not want to provoke resistance from locals who have ethnic ties to the Taliban.

The process of change is all the more difficult (and all the more likely to provoke resistance) when an industry is highly concentrated (like mining in Britain) and change means whole communities are devastated.But what can be done about it?

When Isis declared on 29 June last year that it was re-establishing the caliphate, its opponents in the outside world hoped that its outlandish laws and their brutal application would provoke resistance among people living in the Islamic State.

It provoked resistance, not submission.

It tended to be assertive, and I agree with Montaigne that assertiveness provokes resistance.

The Energiewende raises costs, unsettles supply and provokes resistance at grass-roots level.

Yet, within Europe it is too big to act freely without provoking resistance.

The massive scale of his demand provoked resistance, and the House of Commons clamoured for his resignation.