"provoke" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- After the 1910 revolution, the Constitution was written with harsh religious prohibitions, which helped provoke the clerical persecutions of the 1930's.
- Resentment of these landlords helped provoke years of spasmodic sectarian violence.
- That hostility led to the collapse three years ago of the last effort to open talks and helped provoke a coup attempt in 1988.
- The last bout of inflation helped provoke the Tiananmen demonstrations in 1989.
- The election ruling helped provoke a huge street demonstration last summer.
- And the great outcry for deficit reduction is slowly giving way to a different concern: too much reduction might help provoke a recession.
- And it helped provoke the Civil War, the bloodiest war in American history.
- The Workers Party, whose activities on the Iraqi side of the border helped provoke the fighting, deserves little sympathy.
- These letters were often sent to newspapers, to help provoke debate.
- So he enlisted a colleague to help provoke a public discussion.
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