Sentence examples for provoke riots from inspiring English sources

And you can provoke riots very easily using this thing.

"Islam is a cancer, period," according to the sinister California-based filmmaker whose calumnies about the Prophet provoke riots across the Muslim world.

When in 2006 he quoted a Byzantine emperor saying Islam had brought things "evil and inhuman," remarks that helped provoke riots in which several people died, the Vatican said his words had been misinterpreted.

Mr. Ahmeti is so loathed by Macedonians that Western diplomats persuaded him to abandon plans for a rally in the capital, Skopje, on Friday, fearing that it could provoke riots.

When the ambassador heard of a plan by right-wing commandos to disguise themselves as the police and stage false raids on election night to provoke riots and a coup, he told Washington, Pamela Constable and Arturo Valenzuela wrote in their 1991 book, "A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet".

Reformers maintain that the hard-line crackdown on newspapers and activists could be an attempt to provoke riots that would bring troops into the streets, create a state of national emergency and thus buy the hard-liners more time to maneuver.

I mention the two young men put away for four years each, after trying to provoke rioting through their Facebook pages.

Leading the brigade of disgruntled residents in Newington Green, Islington, perhaps worried that a permanent late licence might provoke Riot City Blues, the singer and his wife also complain that the pub attracts drunk people and disturbs the peace of their "beautiful street".

The mood of the protests appeared considerably nastier than over the weekend, with gangs of young men attempting to provoke riot police and smashing a police car, the BBC's Jonah Fisher in Bangkok reports.

Abraham Lincoln imposed a draft, a move that provoked riots in New York and other cities.

Increases in food prices and reductions of subsidies have provoked riots here in the past.