But Ms Gordillo, the former leader of the teachers' union, ended up provoking a mutiny.
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Now her planned sale is provoking a national outcry and the lady is certainly not going quietly.
Military strikes would also risk provoking a wider conflict in a region that is already worryingly unstable.
The report said it would have to be kept low to avoid punishing consumers and provoking a black market.
And the longer such a default went on, the greater the risk of provoking a genuine bond crisis would become.
In 1896, Armenian revolutionaries attacked the Ottoman Bank in Constantinople, provoking a three-day battle in which at least 6, 000 Armenians died.
Both sides blame each other for provoking a gunfight on March 27th at Mr Ntoumi's headquarters in the wooded hills near Vindza.
But it is provoking a backlash from those who doubt its objectivity.
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The US was uninterested in seizing the ship because it was uninterested in provoking a confrontation with Teheran, which it seeks to engage.
But this one is provoking a reaction from vast numbers of people who want to be part of something much, much bigger than themselves.
This fear probably exaggerates their options: given their dismal poll ratings, the Lib Dems have no interest in provoking a general election any time soon.
All of the drivers have been asked about the use of team orders over the past couple of days, provoking a mixed response from the paddock.
The timing of Obama's informercial pushed back the start of a World Series game, provoking a jab from McCain during a Wednesday afternoon appearance in Florida.
"We were disappointed he didn't understand the seriousness of what occurred and his behaviour was clearly unacceptable in provoking a reaction from the Leicester supporters, " said Blackett.
As they struggle to score 10% in opinion polls, they have everything to lose by provoking a general election anytime soon (the next one is due in 2015).
The country is divided over the best way to educate them, with bilingual programs gathering steam but also provoking a sometimes heated debate with those who favor an English-only approach.
Deputies from Mr Morales's MAS party, which has a slim majority, then decamped to the vice-president's office to approve the charges against the judges, provoking a further outcry from the opposition.
In Britain the clamour for higher education is such that almost half of young people now enroll, and the prospect of having to pay more for the privilege from 2012 is provoking a headlong dash for the ivory towers.
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The threat of massive retaliation in the nuclear context only deterred all-out nuclear war, but not the many other conflicts that plagued the latter half of the 20th Century that did not rise to the level of provoking a nuclear response.
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Peter Kafka wrote a thought-provoking article for All Things D a few weeks ago that leaned heavily toward lean-back.
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Gantz's decision reportedly owes to his desire to avoid provoking Egypt with a rapid expansion of the IDF's order of battle.
In his thought-provoking Fashion: A Philosophy, philosopher Lars Svendsen emphasises the cyclical aspect of fashion, stating that the business is now driven by the principle of making those cycles as short as possible.
"Dog News is a thought provoking newspaper offering very timely information, " AKC president Dennis Sprung said through a spokesman.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided, in a convoluted and dissent-provoking way, not to decide a politically charged global-warming lawsuit against ExxonMobil, BP, AES, Dow Chemical and most of the rest of the American industrial establishment.
Cory Doctorow has recently written a thought-provoking piece for Make about the nature of distributed denial of service (DDoS, flooding a website with illegitimate traffic to cause it to crash) as a form of political protest.
Lois Lowry's thought-provoking The Giver is a great gift for a thoughtful teenager.
Certainly a thought provoking article, however it was unclear to me if the individual or the company should have this skill set.
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Powerful and thought-provoking, this is a book that stays with the reader.
Being at Sundance, America's leading showcase of independent movies, was exciting, thought-provoking, frivolous and a huge hassle -- often at the same time.
By the time she fell out with Howe, provoking him to deliver a ministerial resignation speech which began her own downfall, he was the only survivor of her first Cabinet.
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