This will antagonise Tamils at large, and widen the gulf between them and the Sinhalese.
Western governments are clearly eager not to antagonise China, even if they chafe at its foot-dragging.
Al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya are careful not to antagonise their respective Qatari and Saudi sponsors.
Is that because you don't want to antagonise a large part of your wealthy readership?
Attempts to intercept the guns that flow south to the narco-gangs antagonise America's muscular gun-rights lobby.
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They have little desire to antagonise the people who run an increasingly powerful China.
Such backsliding, even if founded on a realistic assessment of the risks, is bound to antagonise his opponents.
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As often happens with compromises, it is liable to antagonise true believers at both ends of the spectrum.
They dare not antagonise their supporters in the bazaars with a programme of privatisation, deregulation and freer trade.
But the deal with Iran and its pell-mell pursuit of Kurdish terrorists into Iraq antagonise Americans and Europeans further.
Even some Polish fund managers say that the proposed codes must not antagonise big investors on the Warsaw bourse.
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But if it is dangerous for Republicans to antagonise the tea-partiers, is it also dangerous to flirt with them?
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The snag is that an overt blocking move would antagonise Germany's elite, which sees enlargement as a strategic and moral imperative.
Perhaps Oracle has managed to antagonise Ms Kroes by not taking her seriously and accusing the commission of destroying jobs by holding up the merger.
Japan has been loth to antagonise America by formalising the caucus.
By the same token, a no to Turkey would antagonise other Muslim countries, especially in the Arab world, who would see it as a slap in the face delivered by the West against Islam.
The Brothers may tussle bitterly with the generals in due course, especially if they refuse to step down pretty smartly, but for the moment the two sides are seeking not to antagonise each other.
If you are a president who has just suffered the political equivalent of being stuffed in a crate and dropped in a river, does it make sense to antagonise your own party this way?
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Shy of confrontation at the best of times, Mr Abbas does not want to antagonise Fatah people by weakening their influence on the security forces, and Mr Fayyad cannot push reforms through without his backing.
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