The Serbs say the Muslims fired on themselves to provoke Western intervention.

American rules of engagement forbid strikes against this network for fear of provoking Chinese intervention.

Cambria said the dollar's decline would not be enough to provoke intervention by central banks.

By pushing too hard they could perhaps provoke Soviet intervention.

Unless he was a total fool, he wouldn't provoke national intervention.

Any plan that involved putting ten million soldiers so near to the border with China would provoke Chinese intervention.

Drug enforcement agents have already suffered casualties in the Andes and elsewhere without provoking military intervention.

We don't want to provoke internal tensions and foreign intervention.

Such an explosion, these officials fear, would almost certainly provoke a domestic crackdown or Soviet intervention.

Or else he considers it inadvisable, as it might provoke intervention by the Highest.