Such changes in policy sometimes provoke charges that a public figure lacks political conviction.

A decision to change the spelling of more than 500 French words has provoked charges of intellectual totalitarianism from many authors and teachers.

I might have provoked even worse charges.

But they also provoked angry charges of racism, which threatened to split the Liberal-National coalition.

The magazine's attacks on national movements in Armenia and the Baltic republics have also provoked charges of racism from those regions.

This will provoke immediate charges from Democrats that the following scheme is afoot: 1.

It provoked charges of authoritarianism and encouraged attempts to replace him.

This brings us to the President's third proposal, a complicated accounting device that has provoked angry charges of "double counting."

But if the Art Commission's board has provoked charges of aloofness, some defenders respond, "So what?"

That dismissal provoked charges of racism and a walkout by four black committee members.