Sentence examples for provokes tensions from inspiring English sources

Many physicians and patient advocates say that casting these end-of-life conversations as adversarial needlessly provokes tensions.

"The careful and explicit warning from Beijing, though," he added, "is that if North Korea provokes tensions on the Korean Peninsula that results in a South Korea-U.S. military response, Beijing will not help it".

"Dear Friends, I am sorry to inform you that having considered the extent to which my planned appearance at the Locarno festival provokes tensions and controversies among those opposed to my visit, even as I respect their opinions, it is with a heavy heart that I must cancel my visit," he said.

The indocility of young people in high schools, for example, provokes tensions and hardening of positions around school discipline and policing".

Keira Knightley is the patient and later psychoanalyst whose intimacy with Jung provokes tension between him and Freud.

They attend a fan meet-up at the Apple, a comic-book store run by Hank (composer Greene), where Austin's arrival provokes tension.

That has provoked tensions.

But the race provoked tensions, since the Brooklyn Democratic organization and its leader, Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez, endorsed Judge Simpson.

But it would be bound to provoke tensions with the party's Conservative coalition partners, who strongly oppose reform of drugs laws.

The government's about-face is also likely to provoke tensions in the warm relations between Mr. da Silva and his allies and admirers in the Green movement in Europe.

Though rising immigration has provoked tensions elsewhere in Britain too, that episode demonstrated that the Troubles have left behind in Northern Ireland an inarticulate underclass that all too readily resorts to violence.