"provoke" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Such dire circumstances might be expected to provoke political unrest.
- The economic situation continued to worsen during the 1980s, provoking widespread unrest in 1989.
- "They had taken so many illegal decisions that they were on the verge of provoking serious unrest."
- The Government's overriding fear is that the new inequities will provoke unrest.
- They actually added more confusion and even provoked unrest when the peasantry refused to believe or sign them.
- The Government is afraid to close factories losing money because of the risk of provoking unrest among workers.
- The union's response is important, because price increases have often provoked wide domestic unrest in Poland.
- The austerity could also provoke unrest in the countryside.
- He warned that growing numbers of displaced people might flock to the cities, possibly provoking social unrest.
- Second, the rising tide of nationalism could provoke ethnic unrest in China.
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