Sentence examples for provoking it from inspiring English sources
Those who most fervently decry the incursions of an Orwellian police state are often the ones who wind up provoking it to its most conspicuous excesses.
India's generals have devoted considerable energy to devising strategies for fighting a limited war, one that would enable New Delhi to put an end to cross-border attacks in Kashmir and punish Pakistan without provoking it to brandish its nuclear arsenal.
"We should bleed America economically by provoking it to continue in its massive expenditure on its security, for the weak point of America is its economy, which has already begun to stagger due to the military and security expenditure," Mr. Zawahri said, according to the SITE translation quoted in news reports.
Or blame Hamas for provoking it, as Fatah, Israel and its Western allies hope.
While they oppose violence, they say that some of the violent protesters, who form what the dedicated demonstrators call the Black Bloc, for their dark clothing, want to force capitalism to show its real and ugly face by provoking it with violence; others simply come along for the fun of banging heads.
Provoking it by sending U.S. Marines into neighboring Georgia to train its army and by talking up membership of the former Soviet republic in NATO, is clearly one of the dumbest ideas in the post Cold War era.
We provoke it when we mine above its aquifers.
What might have provoked it?
We did not provoke it," Skerrit said.
If Russia overreacted, it was only because Mikheil Saakashvili provoked it.
