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108 examples of Provocation in a sentence

His latest provocation is a short film denouncing Islam, which is yet to be shown, but has already caused panic all around.
Whatever the provocation that led to Zidane’s behavior (probably a racial comment), his violent act, seen around the world, has tarnished his image.
And America’s quiet instructions to all candidates to avoid nationalist provocation undoubtedly also played a role in dampening tension with China – another factor that probably benefited Ma.
To express doubts about the nation’s spiritual biography became a kind of outrage, a hostile and offensive provocation -- a blasphemy.
Egypt’s government was humiliated and incensed by the recent terrorist provocation.
The settlers’ presence, usually marked by giant Israeli flags, is viewed by most Palestinians as a provocation and is a source of constant tension.
North Korean invective and provocation against the South continued, and in November its military shelled a South Korean-held island along the northern limit line, which has served as the North-South border since the 1953 armistice.
Indeed, at the slightest provocation, Putin will be able to point to America’s hypocrisy for spying on, say, European Union facilities as part of expanded surveillance programs supposedly within the scope of the war on terror, and for hunting Snowden after accusing Russia of unfairly prosecuting the whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky.
In that case, Kim III may grasp at provocation in one form or another, as his father did with intermittent attacks on South Korea in recent years.
And, given his support for Tibetan self-rule (Chinese officials angrily call him a “splittist”), his visit to a sensitive border area is being viewed as a deliberate provocation.
And his undeniable success in implementing his labor laws, exemplified by sparse street demonstrations, has been undermined by his irrepressible will to provocation, reflected in his gratuitous remark that “today when there is a strike in France, no one notices it!”
Doing less would have been seen as lying down in the face of US provocation.
In 1912, Italy, without provocation, wrested Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
The young responded with a vengeance to Sarkozy’s provocation.
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.
One of the more frustrating elements of the anti-secession law is the fact that it is an entirely unnecessary provocation.
Ishihara, who has since resigned from office to launch a new political party, is well known for nationalist provocation, and Noda feared that he would try to occupy the islands or find other ways to use them to provoke China and whip up popular support in Japan.
His behavior in office should be closely watched, and no provocation should be left without a response.
While rejecting censorship, the US government should not renounce its authority to speak sensibly and condemn an appalling and apparently intentional provocation that produced such tragic consequences.
Developments like the US Congress’s enactment of the Magnitsky Act, portrayed in Russia as an American provocation, have allowed the Kremlin to rally support at home with retaliatory measures such as a ban on foreign adoptions, while providing cover for a crackdown on domestic opponents.
The eastward expansion of NATO and the European Union, they contend, was an unnecessary provocation.
As with the reef installations, the wise course is to minimize provocation.
The Lega Nord’s latest provocation is its proposal that state employees receive different salaries for the same job, depending on whether they live in the north or the south.
The customs officers tasked with implementing those checks will inevitably become symbols of division, and potentially even a provocation to violence by republican extremists, as happened in the past.
North Korea’s nuclear tests, its missile launches and its threats of further provocation lend new urgency to this cause.
The announcement of the sudden withdrawal from Syria was too much for defense secretary James Mattis, the most respected member of Trump’s cabinet – though it was far from the only provocation.
China’s ADIZ declaration was therefore viewed by the US as a provocation.
Some of the Middle East’s most important players are increasing the risks of confrontation because they have either lost a proper feeling for their regional and international environment, or seek to increase their own political power through provocation and brinkmanship.
There is, of course, a little provocation and a lot of irony in these remarks.
And his provocation highlights a sad reality that Europeans must accept and confront: Europe no longer interests America.
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