Sentence examples for a provocation in from inspiring English sources

This was the kind of police work that could veer toward entrapment — what's known as a "provocation" in Russian law.

This was the kind of police work that could veer toward entrapment what's known as a "provocation" in Russian law.

Those exercises will kick into high gear later this month, and North Korea may unleash a provocation in that time frame as well.

They said this was a recurring pattern in the North's unique brand of brinkmanship: making a provocation in hopes of forcing the other side to negotiate.

The creation of the book is "a provocation in the age of the Internet," said Marilena Ferrari, president of FMR, a fine-art publishing house in Italy.

The tabloid media, she believes, will never leave her alone, and will see the publication of the book as a provocation in itself.

A drunken provocation in a bar stops before it can burst into a brawl; Richard's mother greets him, when he comes home for the child's birth, with nothing but an order to "put some oil on the stove"; and the Supreme Court hearing passes in a brief blur, Richard having stated that he and Mildred will not attend.

ADAM GOPNIK: Not sure in what way you mean — the English name is a clear provocation in a French context, but there's something admirable about the courage,no?

There is really a puckish impulse at work in Ms. Rowling's declaration, a provocation evident in the books themselves.

There's a lot of great music, but not much delving into what made it revolutionary, nor into Brown's role as an influential spokesman for black America in the late 60s, when it was a liberation in itself – almost a racial provocation in reverse – for a black man to stand up and say, "I am a Man".

Since the provocation of coronary artery spasm following AMI posses a high risk, we did not perform a provocation test in our case.