Sentence examples for provoke retribution from inspiring English sources

After Walzer and McMahan suggested some criteria for strikes — criminality, risk of American lives — I asked them this: Doesn't a journalist working abroad who is about to release classified information about a war crime — thus committing a crime — that will provoke retribution or a break with allies — endangering Americans — fit this definition of a target?

After Walzer and McMahan suggested some criteria for strikes criminality, risk of American lives—I asked them this: Doesn't a journalist working abroad who is about to release classified information about a war crime thus committing a crime that will provoke retribution or a break with allies endangering Americans fit this definition of a target?

Liberals, in particular, are often wary of provoking retribution from hardliners.

"To a person, all the families of former detainees told me: 'I wish we'd gone public earlier.'" But his father-in-law was horrified by the idea, fearful of provoking retribution.

These people feel they must keep their heads down, accept decisions passed by parliamentarians, and not kick up too much of a fuss and thereby provoke local retribution.

He advised Washington that a completely unambiguous method should be chosen and enshrined in legislation.The fact that this thriving new nation counted its citizens without provoking divine retribution may have given courage to other Christian countries.

Fundamentalism is easy to spot when the Rev. Jerry Falwell blames homosexuals and supporters of gay rights for provoking divine retribution in the form of the World Trade Center attack -- as well as AIDS.

Those who had limited sympathy for the Charlie Hebdo victims on the grounds that they had to some extent provoked violent retribution must now realise that no provocation is necessary, unless communal joy counts as a provocation.

In protest, all the Gaza members stayed away when the meeting opened, hooking into the proceedings by video link.Mr Arafat said attacks against civilians in Israel prejudiced the Palestinians' own interests because they diverted world attention from the Palestinians' plight and provoked Israeli retribution.

A more somber or ambivalent reaction to this sort of retribution provokes accusations of being insensitive, sheltered, unpatriotic.

It is impossible to ignore the cynicism of Hamas, which rules Gaza and knows what fear and retribution it provokes by firing thousands of rockets into Israel and hiding its arms in mosques and schools.