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2. Provocation.
However, the sentence could just as well have appeared in a government report expressing an admonition to keep the numbers secret, based on the fact that numbers of such magnitude would anger the slaves' descendents and on an assumed law to the effect that sufficient provocation caused people to rebel.
Like Rockefeller 100 years ago, Gates came to the national attention with a pugnacious, imperial style that irritated government lawyers who needed no provocation to do what they were hired to do.
Or, one examiner uses pain provocation, and the other palpatory motion restriction sense to assess for a dysfunctional vertebral segment.
Indians courageously fought alongside the British troops, in Burma, the Middle East, and Europe, but Gandhi saw the British as a provocation for Japanese invasion and was jailed yet again, for launching a “Quit India” campaign in the year 1942.