"provoke" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A few weeks ago the mere suggestion of such a thing would have provoked demonstrations.
- The payments were supposed to have been paid out a week ago, and their postponement provoked several small demonstrations.
- These factors, along with suspicions of corruption in Khoury's administration, provoked massive demonstrations which forced him to resign on 18 September 1952.
- Economic discontent and a desire for political liberalization provoked violent demonstrations and strikes by students and workers in early 1990.
- This decision provoked anti-government demonstrations, in the course of which one person was killed.
- In July, the American authorities permanently closed down another newspaper for similar reasons, provoking similar demonstrations.
- Organizations, such as Ekoglasnost, provoked nationwide demonstrations and strongly influenced the change to democracy.
- Yet in July, the school board announced further pay cuts, provoking demonstrations from tens of thousands of teachers.
- The deteriorating economic situation in East Germany provoked strikes and demonstrations by industrial employees and farmers.
- Police have been mounting a guard at the hunt's kennels in case Tom's death provokes further demonstrations.
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