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.