"provoke" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Serbs say the Muslims fired on themselves to provoke Western intervention.
- American rules of engagement forbid strikes against this network for fear of provoking Chinese intervention.
- Cambria said the dollar's decline would not be enough to provoke intervention by central banks.
- By pushing too hard they could perhaps provoke Soviet intervention.
- Unless he was a total fool, he wouldn't provoke national intervention.
- Any plan that involved putting ten million soldiers so near to the border with China would provoke Chinese intervention.
- Drug enforcement agents have already suffered casualties in the Andes and elsewhere without provoking military intervention.
- We don't want to provoke internal tensions and foreign intervention.
- Such an explosion, these officials fear, would almost certainly provoke a domestic crackdown or Soviet intervention.
- Or else he considers it inadvisable, as it might provoke intervention by the Highest.
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