Sentence examples for provoke retaliatory from inspiring English sources

Protestant leaders said the shooting was an attempt to provoke retaliatory violence by Protestants.

Even if they did, that would complicate exit negotiations and could provoke retaliatory measures from Continental Europe.

His trade policy is to start a trade war with China and provoke retaliatory tariffs that would collapse US exports and start a recession.

Whether the west and Israel would be able to live with that, I don't know". A pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear sites by the US would likely provoke retaliatory attacks by Iranian "sleepers".

Critics of the move to register RT and Sputnik as foreign agents generally make two arguments: that doing so would chill free speech and provoke retaliatory measures against American journalists working in Russia.

The F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security had warned law enforcement officials about the danger that the event could provoke retaliatory attacks, and there was a large police presence at the event.

Experts have warned that such a measure could backfire by provoking retaliatory action.

Disturbed at the little pulse of racism he'd just detected within himself he resisted the latter suggestion, which didn't stop word getting out anyway and provoking retaliatory violence from local bigots.

It gained some persuasive power only after the Anglo-American invasion and occupation of Iraq, which radicalised a significant number of Muslims, provoking retaliatory attacks on European cities as well as the ravaging of large parts of Asia and Africa.

The regime nationalized hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. property and private businesses, which provoked retaliatory measures by the U.S. government, including a trade embargo, an unsuccessful invasion by Cuban exiles at the Bay of Pigs in south-central Cuba (April 1961), and unexecuted plots to assassinate Castro.

In recent months, American commanders say, the most senior Iraqi Army and police leaders have ignored growing Shiite militia activity, provoking retaliatory attacks by Sunni insurgents, like the ambush and killing of 35 police officers in October in attacks near the city of Khan Bani Saad.