"provoke" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Needlessly provoking a nationalistic backlash only helps the drug traffickers.
- But they also indicated that the four battalions were placed one at a time so as not to needlessly provoke the Sandinistas.
- Many physicians and patient advocates say that casting these end-of-life conversations as adversarial needlessly provokes tensions.
- The trick is to do so without needlessly provoking Beijing.
- What he was after would needlessly provoke the Russians.
- Since Ms Aloni took over the education ministry, she has succeeded in needlessly provoking almost every segment of the population.
- Sophia and I agreed that, for the sake of avoiding obtrusiveness and of needlessly provoking those who tend to be against accommodation with the Americans, night is better than day.
- Until the bonds loosen, recognition would give little practical benefit to Lithuania - and would needlessly provoke Moscow.
- "The committee is needlessly provoking a confrontation with the White House," said Senator Paul S. Sarbanes, the Maryland Democrat who is the ranking minority member of the panel.
- Like Wamsutta and his father before him, Philip vowed not to needlessly or unjustly provoke or raise war with any other natives.
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