The phrase "a provocation like this" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific instance of provocation that is being discussed or considered.
Example: "In response to a provocation like this, we must remain calm and think strategically."
Alternatives: "such a provocation" or "an incitement like this".
"My worry is that that's behind a provocation like the sinking of the Cheonan," Mr. Gates said during an appearance in San Francisco.
On Monday, the South's conservative daily Chosun Ilbo cited unnamed government officials as saying that if North Korea launched a provocation like the Cheonan sinking, the South Korean military would retaliate by launching missiles at gigantic statues of Mr. Kim's grandfather and father, Kim Il-sung Il-sung and Kim Jong-il Jong-ilcts of whichip in the North.
Provocations like this have a proud tradition, by way of TS Eliot's notes in The Waste Land, and are both a delight and a frustration: part private love-letter, part public display.
Nevertheless I found myself reading, and enjoying, Blood Brotherhood as an ironic provocation, like Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, regardless of Donovan's intent.
Japan said "repeated provocations like this are absolutely unacceptable" and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his country would "unite strongly" with the US and South Korea to put pressure on Pyongyang.
Japan described "repeated provocations like this are absolutely unacceptable" and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his country would "unite strongly" with the US and South Korea to put pressure on Pyongyang.
"North Korea stages provocations like this, and worse, because it improves deterrence," Jeffrey Wright, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies Monterey, tweeted.
Speculative provocations like, "Chinese military buildup threatens U.S. forces" and "2015 will be Year One of a Chinese century" show that the outside world has felt the accelerating rise in China's comprehensive national strength.
