Provocation in example sentence

The world must make clear that Russian military involvement in Abkhazia is unacceptable, while also restraining Georgia’s government from reacting militarily to any provocation.

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Without provocation, suddenly she attacked, against her Prime Minister's orders, the next-door neighbor's oil fields.

[A provocation from Danny Hillis:] [It's time to start talking about engineering our climate] What if there was a way to build a thermostat that allowed you to turn down the temperature of the earth anytime you wanted?

And sometimes, he and his cohort would chant that provocation the entire school bus ride, 45 minutes up, 45 minutes back: "Percy!

So, what started as a bit of an inside joke with myself and a willful provocation, has become a thing.

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