But he makes no allowance for Anglo-American snooping agencies' own role in provoking this Silicon Valley response.
The counsel for the US acknowledged there was no longer a suggestion that Sarao had played a significant role in provoking the flash crash.
South Korean officials play down their role in provoking the North, saying officials in Pyongyang are engaging in the same brand of nuclear brinkmanship they have used in previous crises, though with a markedly faster pace.
Leaving aside the awkward truth that the proletariat tends to scorn the avant-garde and that Kelman's literary reputation is promoted by bourgeois intellectuals, he has played a valuable role in provoking us all to question our prejudices.
The killing of the girl may also have played a role in provoking a devastating suicide bomb attack on two Yazidi villages in which at least 300 people died.
Mr Saakashvili is under attack for the dire condition of the economy but he is also paying the price for his role in provoking last summer's war with Russia which led to thousands of Georgians fleeing their homes and both South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two Russian-leaning enclaves declaring their autonomy from Georgia.
John Denham, the Communities Secretary, compared the protests organised by groups such as the English Defence league to the rise of Oswald Moseley's blackshirts in the 1930s and its role in provoking violent street fights, particularly the Battle of Cable Street in 1936.
Ondansetron-like drugs might, thus, not play such a big role in provoking serotonergic toxicity.
The effect of HRT on migraine has been investigated, either in its role of provoking or preventing the attacks.
Recent studies have shown that mtDNA released in the cytoplasm plays a key role in provoking the NLRP3 inflammasome (Nakahira et al., 2011; Shimada et al., 2012).
