Officials who specialize in organized-crime activities said Mr. Gotti apparently has provoked enmity by ruthlessly trying to take over money-making activities in the Gambino family.
Rather, he said, Mr. Jang and his associates had provoked the enmity of rivals within the North's elite by dominating lucrative business deals, starting with the coal badly needed by China, the North's main trading partner.
The appointment was successful but Cesare, recognising how his man's severity had provoked local enmity, "found a pretext … had [him] beheaded and his corpse put on display one morning in the piazza … with a wooden block and a bloody knife beside … The ferocity of the spectacle," Machiavelli records, "left people both shocked and gratified".
He invited and provoked controversy and enmity in a way that is very … un-Brooklyn.
The practical consequences for Israel of provoking such European enmity are serious, but the moral consequences are more serious still.
Applause saluted the entry of Michael Manley, the former prime minister, whose pro-Cuban policies had provoked the disastrous enmity of the US government and the International Monetary Fund, and who had been deposed by Seaga at an election six months earlier.
The enmity provoked in Wilson was to have lasting repercussions.
Mr. Scowcroft suggested that this approach could provoke the "wrath and enmity" of the Muslim world.
But Democrats, even those who would have voted against her, were well on their way to suspecting that anyone capable of provoking so much conservative enmity might be on some level O.K.
Góngora was always successful with his lighter poetry the romances, letrillas, and sonnets but his longer works, the Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (circulated in manuscript in 1613; "Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea") and the Soledades (circulated in manuscript in 1613; "Solitudes"), written in an intensely difficult and purposely complex style, provoked the scorn and enmity of many.
Whatever position one may take in the controversy concerning the degree to which Plato's early dialogues are true to the historical Socrates' discussions, there can be little doubt that the latter's cross-examinations (elenchos) provoked the kind of enmity that led to his conviction and execution.
