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Example sentences for: provoke

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Countries in debt usually prefer raising bonds, which are cheaper to finance than regular loans, but Japan seems skittish about issuing new bonds, which could upset its bond market or provoke scrutiny from credit companies.
Since then, Saddam Hussein has repeatedly defied the no-fly zones, using his jets, radar, and anti-aircraft weapons to provoke allied pilots.
The paper observes that such drops no longer provoke the anxiety they did just a few years ago.
The attack did not provoke riots and further bloodshed, in part because the soldier was a lousy shot and failed to kill anyone, and in part because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expeditiously phoned Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to condemn the shooting.
The incident could provoke Boris Yeltsin to impose emergency rule, with potentially serious effects on Russia's forthcoming presidential and parliamentary elections.