Examples of 'could provoke' in a sentence
Meaning of "could provoke"
could provoke ~ to cause or stimulate a response or reaction, often negative
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That could provoke a disastrous interstellar incident.
This in its turn could provoke reaction.
We could provoke justice through the army.
Any action we take could provoke her.
This could provoke more trouble.
And beware the reaction you could provoke.
This landing could provoke a slaughter of prisoners.
Extrajudicial killings are an obstacle to peace and could provoke further violence.
My presence could provoke another incident.
Both parties were hesitant to make comments that could provoke anxiety or anger.
This incident could provoke some civil unrest.
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke.
I do not think that it could provoke areasonable person.
It could provoke him even more.
A bailout of this size could provoke a banking crisis.
They could provoke war sooner rather than later.
Military presence however small could provoke uncooperative reaction.
Maybe we could provoke him and make him turn the machines on us.
Raising the issue directly could provoke negative feelings.
If they could provoke me and goad me into calling the deposition or walking out.
This place of such extremes could provoke such extreme emotions.
Such incidents could provoke a chain reaction with extremely negative consequences for a settlement in the province.
A name was required for a substance that could provoke such revelatory experience.
You could provoke it.
There is only one law left which could provoke some problems.
If they could provoke me and goad me.
The judicial insecurity that this situation could provoke was very significant.
This attack could provoke a response and a further spiral of violence.
The use of non safety power packs could provoke damage to the system.
Its construction could provoke a powerful earthquake that would pose an enormous danger to human life.
Children frighten easily and the noise and movements they make could provoke an attack.
Inadequate electrodes could provoke burns or skin reactions.
This could provoke a cut and one would take freedom not approved by the sovereign assembly.
That in itself could provoke an action.
You could provoke real Islamic terrorists to join in.
This is because this mix could provoke abnormal heart rhythms.
You could provoke it Or you could scare it off.
Kids tend to play rough and that could provoke an attack or harm a small pet.
The recent Enron debacle offers a sobering lesson in what a lack of transparency could provoke.
A traumatic experience could provoke a phobia to infinity of objects or situations.
Seeing Hermann reappear with a compromising video could provoke murderous tendencies.
This additive could provoke an obsession for foods that contain it.
You have to think of how it could provoke the North.
This in turn could provoke rising crime and social revolt.
Curtis LeMay did a test run to see if you could provoke the Russians to war.
Errors or fouls could provoke accidents that made this popular event even more spectacular.
But if May refused to approve such a vote she could provoke a constitutional crisis.
The pressure to deliver could provoke manipulations and might dilute the quality of organic products.
Serbia suggested that the creation of a standing army in Kosovo could provoke a military intervention.
Rise in space junk could provoke armed conflict say scientists.
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Could go to prison for some time if convicted
On horseback you could be home in three days
Examples of using Provoke
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This might provoke something completely different
He writes in a way not to provoke the censor
That will provoke less nosy questions
