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agents provocateurs

n. (agent provocateur English)

Usage examples of "agents provocateurs".

However, the fault lies not with him but with certain agents provocateurs in Prince Awari's camp.

In cases too numerous to mention, tyrants and aspiring despots have gone even further, engaging agents provocateurs to carry out assassinations, foment riots and rebellion, precipitate financial panics, attempt palace coups, feign foreign invasion, initiate acts of terrorism, and perform other infamous acts —.

Maddened as they were by bloodlust and the shouted slogans of the agents provocateurs, there wasn't a man or woman there crazy enough to take on the Deathstalker.

I mean, you almost never get an Arab walk-in unless they're trying to fuck someone else, or if there's a reward to be had, or if they were agents provocateurs, to use a French and CIA term.

De Cherbourg was working with one of His Majesty's personal agents trying to trace down the ring of Polish agents provocateurs operating in Cherbourg.

If Ja'far's cousin had been right and Rectitude agents provocateurs had set Rashid up, then last night had been the first time that Rashid had camped under Lalla's window.

Few of my scholar friends believe there are commercial media people like Jim Baen and Ben Bova, agents provocateurs of speculation.

However, the fault lies not with him but with certain agents provocateurs in Prince Awari’.

Among the trudgers, as bitter and dejected as anyone, seemingly, were spies and agents provocateurs secretly employed and paid very well by the Pinkerton Detective Agency.