I found it funny, well written and (except possibly for the last paragraph, where he kindly asks me to go home) rather well done: I wrote a controversial book, it makes sense that it would elicit strong reactions; I meant to provoke, strike a nerve, launch a debate -- how can I regret that thanks to him, and you, the debate is now under way?
Against expectations, Nissan under Mr. Ghosn did it all without provoking strikes, protests or boycotts.
Olympic timetables will require "minor changes" in transport workers' operating terms, says TfL but smaller demands than these have provoked strikes from the capital's pugnacious transport unions.
The archaic word "strife" was in heavy use in those rackety days, with inflation provoking strikes, pay settlements driving inflation, thick-headed, two-bottle-lunch management, bloody-minded unions with insurrectionary ambitions, weak government, energy crises and power cuts, skinheads, filthy streets, the Troubles, nukes.
The demands made by the colonial government on Congolese workers during the war provoked strikes and riots from the workforce.
The increasing demands placed on the Congolese population by the colonial authorities during the war, however, provoked strikes, riots and other forms of resistance, particularly from the indigenous Congolese.
Such erratic motion by baitfish can provoke a strike.
If the BBC wants to provoke a strike over such small numbers it would be shameful.
President Bush may have chosen to react with an unambiguous message, but it was Mr. Hussein who provoked the strikes.
He said it appeared to him as if transit leaders were actually "trying to provoke a strike".
