provoke a crisis
1crisis — n. 1) to cause, precipitate, provoke, stir up a crisis 2) to aggravate a crisis 3) to avert, forestall a crisis 4) to defuse, overcome, settle a crisis; to ride out a crisis 5) an acute, grave, serious; impending; mounting crisis 6) a cabinet;… …
2crisis — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ acute, grave, major, serious, severe, terrible, worst ▪ the worst economic crisis for fifty years ▪ …
3provoke — verb ADVERB ▪ deliberately ▪ inevitably (esp. BrE) ▪ The suggestion inevitably provoked outrage from student leaders. ▪ immediately ▪ eventually …
42004 Adjara crisis — The Ajaria crisis refers to a political crisis in Georgia’s Ajarian Autonomous Republic, then led by Aslan Abashidze, who refused to obey the central authorities after President Eduard Shevardnadze’s ousting during the Rose Revolution of November …
5Moscow theater hostage crisis — Coordinates: 55°43′33″N 37°40′24″E / 55.72583°N 37.67333°E / 55.72583; 37.67333 …
6International crisis — An international crisis is a crisis between nations. There are many definitions of an international crisis. Snyder ...a sequence of interactions between the governments of two or more sovereign states in severe conflict, short of actual war, but… …
72006 East Timorese crisis — The 2006 East Timorese crisis began as a conflict between elements of the military of East Timor over discrimination within the military, and expanded to general violence throughout the country, centred in the capital Dili. The crisis prompted a… …
8Berlin Crisis of 1961 — History of Berlin This article is part of a series Weimar Republic (1919–33) …
9First Taiwan Strait Crisis — Infobox Military Conflict conflict= First Taiwan Strait Crisis caption=Taiwan Strait date= 1954 1955 place= Strait of Taiwan combatant1=ROC flagicon|United States|1912 United States Navy flagicon|Philippines|1919 Philippine Navy combatant2=PRCThe …
10Berberist Crisis — (1949 1950) This crisis refers to the ideological split between the Kabyle leaders who called for a secular and multicultural Algeria and the dominant Arab Islamist ideology within the Algerian mainstream nationalist movement. Although the… …
