1.   This action provoked further disturbances on the streets of Karachi and in other towns and cities.

2.   Yet it seems to have been the realisation of what the Hanoverian succession would mean -- namely Whig supremacy -- which provoked the disturbances.

3.   Even where nominal allies are in power, American forces have to keep an oddly low profile to avoid provoking anti-Western disturbances.

4.   The government feared that the presence of a Zapatista in Mexico City could provoke disturbances either in favor of or against the guerrilla movement.

5.   The length and not the conditions of their jailing had provoked the disturbance, he said.

6.   Le Pen announced Tuesday he would not be attending Easter Mass in Strasbourg cathedral for fear of provoking a disturbance.