Sentence examples for provoke supporters from inspiring English sources

It was the latest in a string of spurious detentions apparently designed to provoke supporters of the hunger-striking Mr Udaltsov into lashing out.

Civil servant Dimitri Silveira, 33, said he was not looking for conflict but protesters were seeking to provoke government supporters.

The Hibs manager Pat Fenlon was sent to the stand by the referee Craig Thomson in the second half, although he insisted that he had been remonstrating with his own side rather than aiming to provoke Hearts supporters.

Almost certainly, it was provoked by supporters of the recently ousted tyrant, Slobodan Milosevic, who are still trying to embarrass and destabilise the new administration headed by President Vojislav Kostunica.The trouble began when a few hundred supporters of Partisan and also, apparently, of the former president threw fireworks on to the pitch.

By his gamble on Wednesday in proposing budgetary concessions to Republicans on Social Security, the 1935 creation of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Medicare, the legacy of President Lyndon B. Johnson, Mr. Obama has provoked angry supporters on his left to ask whether he is a progressive at all.

The decision provoked outrage from supporters of the world's largest breast cancer charity because it was unmistakably political.

The Democratic candidates spent much of the week trying to tamp down controversy provoked by their supporters.

There was serious violence in Rome last November; in Dublin in 1995 a riot provoked by English supporters caused a game to be abandoned.

Yes, other countries have their football hooligans some Germans have been arrested in Paris and the Tunisian supporters provoked some of the violence in Marseilles.

The conviction, Berlusconi's first in 20 years of cat and mouse with the courts, provoked outrage from supporters of Italy's longest-serving postwar prime minister.

What I did love was the plot to see off Mr Polish Independence – to kill him would have provoked his Polish supporters further.