Sentence examples for provoking tensions from inspiring English sources

And as the drug agency has expanded its eavesdropping operations to keep up with cartels, it has faced repeated pressure to redirect its counternarcotics surveillance to local concerns, provoking tensions with some of Washington's closest allies.

Visits by top Spanish officials there are rare — the enclaves are the only Spanish cities the king, above, has never visited as monarch — and it was not immediately clear why Madrid was risking provoking tensions with Morocco.

But the rise of Catalan nationalism is provoking tension in Spain itself.

US administrations were for long reluctant to challenge North Korea too forcefully on its human rights record, for fear of provoking tension in the region.

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.

The work of these groups often provoked tensions between the United States and many Middle Eastern leaders, who frequently complained that their leadership was being undermined, according to the cables.

Given such a fundamental collision of interests, it was perhaps inevitable that Lashkar would one day provoke tensions between Pakistani and American security officials, and the collision itself would come into full public view.