Shankar, that idiot Sanjay Somji is provoking people against you.

- Where from? - Don't provoke the kids against me!

Why don't we send Orhan to Edirne and let him provoke people against Mehmet?

Only reprisals taken against the provoking State are permissible.

In Zambia, Chinese mining firms’ indifference to the deathof their African employees provoked large protests against China’spresence.

The only human rights violations committed in Cuba are the ones generated and provoked against our people by the embargo and the ones committed by the United States at the Guantanamo Naval Base, which it occupies against our will on our territory.

The world must be made aware that the rise of Hindu fascism could provoke a holocaust against the Muslims of India and devastating conflict in South Asia.

Indeed, they were calculated not only to cause death and mayhem but to foment distrust between racial and religious communities and to provoke a backlash against Muslim communities.

The change in attitudes since the 1960s had provoked a backlash against women because men were struggling to adapt to new roles and responsibilities.

At the same time, given the justifiable revulsion terrorism provokes, we must guard against attributing such acts to any religion or civilization.