Provocation in a sentence

The fire which ignites religious violence is a provocation and compelling Muslim candidates to write examinations during the Jumu’ah period while Christians are not subjected to the same treatment on Sunday constitutes extreme provocation.

The two had been charged with intentionally insulting Watson and thereby giving provocation to him, knowing it to be likely that such provocation would cause him to break public peace.

A case was registered against them at the Hayathnagar police station for indulging in hate speech and inciting hatred and causing provocation for violence through an event organized by the cultural team of the BJP on Telangana Formation Day (June 2).

Antisemitic provocation in the guise of anti-Zionism — which is followed by justified criticism — then prompt complaints about “censorship” and “academic freedom,” which is a standard BDS tactic.

A sense of provocation is immediately evident in his work but what strikes me the most — and what I wanted to focus on — is instead his creative freedom, his narrative skill and his great love of cinema.

Ben-Gvir on Tuesday visited the flashpoint holy site’s compound in East Jerusalem, which was denounced by the Palestinian side as a provocation.

Biden’s other concern about sending F-16s is that they would cross a line that Vladimir Putin might regard as a provocation, to which he might respond by escalating the fight.

But the episode is the kind of provocation that could drive China and the U.S. into a Cold War-style conflict, The Economist notes.

China hit back on Wednesday after Biden referred to President Xi Jinping as a “dictator”, saying the remarks were absurd and a provocation, an unexpected flare-up following attempts by both sides to reduce friction.

Control your emotions, whatever the provocation.

For a decade, he has been a master of carefully calibrated provocation.

From Beijing’s point of view, the visit of a foreign executive or politician to Taiwan is a provocation.

Going further back, it was break dance steps that boys felt compelled to break into without any provocation or need of any sort whatsoever, and without the slightest regard to the occasion.

I am not saying that the provocation justified the slap.

If North Korea follows through on its plan to launch a missile, it would violate United Nations’ Security Council resolutions and be a “serious provocation”, Matsuno told reporters.

It is not clear exactly what provocation North Korea is referring to, but an expert in he matter claims that the North is now going to rebuild the 10 frontline posts it was forced to destroy five years ago, and add “better weapons” to the area.

Just a few hours after that, the usual conspiracies about the video being a staged provocation began bubbling to the surface on social media and in the group chats I quietly monitor.

Justice Chapple found few mitigating factors other than Hernandez’s relatively young age at the time and the provocation of his father-in-law throwing the bottle.

Manchester’s ordinance defines a potentially vicious dog as an animal that — without provocation and outside of its owner’s property — has bitten or tried to attack a person or who has injured or killed another animal.

Nuclear envoys of South Korea, the US and Japan held a phone call on Wednesday to strongly condemn the North's missile launch as a serious provocation that can "never be justified," Seoul's foreign ministry said.