Sentence examples for provoke retaliation from inspiring English sources

However, I think this could provoke retaliation from the ostracized countries, stimulating conflict rather than cooperation.

This will provoke retaliation, counter-campaigns, intense lobbying for Washington to obstruct reform.

It could provoke retaliation, although the EU loftily says it would fight back at the WTO instead.

Opponents of military action argue that a Nato-led attack on Syria would itself provoke retaliation against Turkey.

It could also provoke retaliation by a future Conservative government, possibly through curbs on trade union financial support for Labour.

The attacks in Paris were designed to provoke retaliation against European Muslims, and consequently more recruits for its "caliphate".

The targeted assassinations and reprisals, including the destruction of Palestinian homes in refugee camps, during the three-week period in which Yasir Arafat succeeded in lowering the violence dramatically, seemed clearly intended to provoke retaliations from Hamas and Islamic Jihad in order to avoid being cornered into political negotiations.

The assassinations appeared to have provoked retaliation killings.

And if it provokes retaliation, even the producers will not in fact be protected.

As in the Netherlands, the argument against doing so is to avoid provoking retaliation.

The Protestant violence and the decision to let them march provoked retaliation by Catholics.