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Example sentences for: provoking

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The Times sees in Clinton's comment the strategy of provoking Bush so Al Gore doesn't have to.
Wealthy enough to have had the means to flee Israel in 1967, they began building villas and buying fancy cars upon their return, provoking resentment among the thousands of Palestinians who have lived for decades in U.N.-run refugee camps.
After the United States launched air attacks against Iraq at the end of 1998 and against Serbia in 1999, in each case provoking worldwide criticism, Deputy National Security Advisor James Steinberg added the argument that attacks in Afghanistan offered "little benefit, lots of blowback against [a] bomb-happy U.S."
After all, even dictators have to worry about justifying their policies, hence the centrality of propaganda to fascist and Communist regimes, and can't do everything they want; there is always the danger of provoking a rebellion.
Its lyrics argue that labeling the calamity "famine" fails to draw enough attention to the British role in provoking it.