All sides need to be careful and avoid provocation.

He strongly kept to the International Law but avoided provocation.

Given this present touchiness, Washington needs to avoid gratuitous provocation.

The more likely prospect is that Saddam Hussein will avoid provocations.

Kim Young Sam watches his words carefully and tries to avoid provocation.

To avoid unnecessary provocation of the law, performances were sometimes advertised as "moral lectures" rather than "theatre."

Understand, we maintain a very light force of men here by agreement with the Soviet Union in order to avoid provocations with a friendly neighbor.

Large numbers of uniformed police officers surrounded the building, but to avoid provocation they did not carry sidearms or nightsticks.

This year, avoiding provocation could be awkward.

I wore civilian clothes to avoid provocation.