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Перевод: provoke

[глагол]
вызывать; возбуждать; провоцировать; спровоцировать; сердить; раздражать; побуждать

Тезаурус:

1. They said that the robbery had been made to appear like the work of the IRA in the hope that it would provoke the Irish government into introducing tougher legislation against the terrorists.
2. These purely subjective announcements do not provoke a debate in which the speaker and listener are challenged to give a precise meaning to the words.
3. You provoke me at your peril!"
4. Orton's camp is indeed constituted by playfulness and it acts as a solvent of morality - but it does this to provoke rather than disarm moral indignation.
5. Attempts to provoke adverse judgements on canonical works tend to be resented as "finding fault with" or "picking holes in" these works of established merit, the result of a tiresome foible on the part of the teacher, and leading to disorientation if persisted in.
6. But though obedience may be justly required, servility is not to be exacted; and though it may be lawful to exert authority, it must be remembered, that to govern and to tyrannize are very different, and that oppression will naturally provoke rebellion
7. You know what my reasons have been in the past: I just don't want to provoke interest in myself.
8. , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world's demise If forests burn it's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy, Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy, Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy, Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy, Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy, Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It's just another way she's found To tell us what to do Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases, PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we can't start again Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE
9. He occasionally drops a phrase to provoke a smile from the soft cheeks of ladies and gentlemen, and to make them think that they could say the thing better
10. Brown and Harris (1978) argue that the factors which lead to depression in women are of two types: some actually provoke the onset of depression (provoking agents) while others make women more vulnerable to the operation of provoking agents (vulnerability factors).
11. Now that details of that struggle in the later 1930s and 1940s have faded, the books have been weakened, though their central argument can still engage and provoke.
12. The killings are seen as an attempt by Sikh extremists to provoke Hindu-Sikh riots which could disrupt parliamentary polls in the state scheduled within a fortnight.
13. Of course there is no reason why the takeover of a football club should arouse greater interest than controversial manoeuvres in any other area of commerical life but this ignores the status Manchester United have acquired so the negotiations were bound to provoke serious misgivings.