1.   And there is always the danger that loyalist gunmen will try to provoke retaliation.

2.   Authorities here also worry that preparations to use U.S. Apache attack helicopters to target Serb forces along the border could provoke Serb retaliation against the refugees.

3.   European leaders say these measures are an unacceptable projection of U.S. domestic legislative concerns that could provoke retaliation.

4.   It was a tactical maneuver that provoked retaliation four years later, when most East Bloc teams boycotted the Los Angeles Games.

5.   Lancry said on Wednesday that the Palestinian side needed to take account of its own actions in provoking retaliation.

6.   Often senators place holds on a measure to gain leverage on unrelated matters, which can provoke retaliation in the form of unrelated counterholds.

7.   On Monday, Prime Minister John Bruton of Ireland said the attack on the army base was an attempt to provoke Protestant retaliation.

8.   Officials also said they feared that the attacks could provoke retaliation by the larger Protestant paramilitary groups here and in the overwhelmingly Catholic Irish Republic to the south.

9.   The order was not prompted by concerns that open trials might provoke follow-on retaliation, Ashcroft said.

10.   The Protestant violence and the decision to let them march provoked retaliation by Catholics.