Is it because it's conventional while being thought provoking, too?
Biofuels have not only diverted crops to fuel but have also diverted public subsidies to farmers without provoking too many objections.
Infringing on the freedoms and fun of young people would provoke too much anger and, more crucially, lose the extreme right the support of their main target audience: young men.
Even more disturbing is the view of one veteran observer of sport Down Under who interrupted his coverage of the Open to report that the news from Lord's was unlikely to provoke too much outrage back home.
In fact, the majority of his interviews – while still providing valuable insight into the subject – don't provoke too much post-chat commotion.
At the heart of his mission is a complicated task: to promise a strong U.S. commitment to Japan, South Korea and other allies without provoking too much concern in China, which has bypassed Japan to become the second-largest economy in the world.
Get rid of objects that might provoke too much negativity or bad vibes.
Predictably, the backlash it provoked also went too far, as exemplified by the screed of R.S. Zahler and H.J. Sussman, "Claims and Accomplishments of Applied Catastrophe Theory," Nature, Vol. 269 (1977), pp. 759-763.
Such episodes provoked ambivalence, too.
