On the other, it does not want to provoke the superpower too much.

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More significantly, the fact that they do not provoke inflammation means they it might be possible to use them to repair the wounds of patients with conditions such as diabetes, in which chronic skin infections often get in the way of healing when normal stitches are used.

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Apple may not want to provoke a price war in the tablet market, where it sees plenty of growth to come.

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If it's not pollsters, it's some smart-ass blogger trying to provoke us to say something against blacks or gays or Mexicans.

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That we have promised retaliation for decades and then always drawn back, hoping that we could get through if we simply did not provoke the enemy, is appeasement, and it must be quite clear by now even to those who perpetually appease that appeasement simply does not work.

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Were Indiana to win this Eastern Conference final, it would be a significant upset, and perhaps provoke some ratings-hungry TV executives to order a double bourbon, but it would not be shocking, given how the Pacers have matched the Heat throughout the series and refused to yield to the expected story line.

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It is possible that may provoke questions from viewers in the UK who do not have access to older shows.

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Diplomats at the Vatican though not, apparently, the pope himself seem to have accepted the argument that it was not right to make too much of a fuss about the Timorese, since this might provoke an Islamist backlash in Indonesia as a whole.

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