Sentence examples for provoke wars from inspiring English sources
Hamas and Hizbullah, by contrast, are violent ideological groups willing to provoke wars; talking to them only undermines moderates.
Lincoln's primary aim was neither to provoke war nor to maintain peace.
At a press conference, President Putin told reporters that his decision to send troops into Crimea would not provoke war.
Most obviously, the jihadists' spectacular did not provoke war between two nuclear-armed powers, India and Pakistan, as some had feared at the time.
Then, seeking to provoke war between the United States and Mexico, he raided Columbus, New Mexico, on March 9, 1916, burning the town and killing some 17 inhabitants.
No one should forget that November's terrorist attacks on Mumbai were an attempt by Pakistani jihadists to provoke war between India and Pakistan.
One man – his voice hoarse with ranting three hours a day on his own radio station, his face understandably the colour of Spam – blamed rogue elements who wanted to provoke war and gain geopolitical dominance of the world.
One account says the raid was a deliberate attempt to provoke war.
What will provoke war against China will be a professed need to defend our credibility everywhere on the planet.
SPECTRE is extorting the government of an unnamed Asian power, implied to be the People's Republic of China, in order to provoke war between the superpowers.
