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It also provoked a campaign that saw protestors conducting an occupation of the partly-demolished caff.

Of course, if the unions do get involved in the mayoral campaign, or other city races, that could provoke a campaign finance arms race of sorts, said John A. Catsimatidis, a supermarket magnate who is considering a mayoral run next year as a Republican.

At least 129 activists disappeared during the uprising and hundreds of "enforced disappearances" throughout Saleh's rule still remain unaccounted for, provoking a campaign of portraits on public walls by activists seeking redress.

As opponents of the plant, we provoked a full campaign to get local governments and the state to stop certifying the plan, which succeeded.

What provoked a systematic campaign of attacks hardly suggestive of a sane and rational America that had just won the war against the book-burning Nazis and more reminiscent of the Inquisition, the incineration of Giordiano Bruno, or the ending of Frankenstein, in which angry villagers with torches and pitchforks burn down the mad scientist's castle?

He announced the original mining tax without sufficient consultation, alienating the mining companies and provoking an advertising campaign against the Government.

Islamist militants have provoked international outrage with a campaign of persecution against Yazidi refugees and minority Christians, leading Republican senators to call the President "weak" for ruling out putting US boots on the ground.

But only if it were to take place in the context of an entirely new policy towards Palestine would the US be able to mount such a campaign without provoking massive unrest across the Arab world; and given what became of promises made during the Gulf War, there would first of all have to be firm evidence of a US change of heart.

Although the administration has not indicated how it would answer new Iraqi defiance, the official refused to rule out the possibility of an "October surprise" of American military action at the height of a campaign, should the Iraqis provoke it.

A seemingly innocuous motion to remove a regulation that limits teachers' freedom to discuss homosexuality with students seeking counsel provoked a multimillion-dollar campaign of loudspeaker trucks, pickets and billboards accusing the lawmakers of condoning sexual perversion.

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