Sentence examples for a provocative statement from inspiring English sources

That's a provocative statement?

It was, as Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre note, a provocative statement.

The execution of Iran's Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr on 2 January was a provocative statement of intent.

He'd throw out a provocative statement, and then reverse one hundred eighty degrees and throw out another one.

Now that's a provocative statement – that seems to suggest that without a genuine education, we are somehow asleep.

In a provocative statement two weeks ago, he said, "The new market structure is broken and must be discarded".

Dropping a piece of opposition research, unveiling a controversial commercial or making a deliberately provocative statement in an interview are all strategies that can shift the substance of the coverage.

Mr. Li and Mr. Liu are making a witty, provocative statement about Chinese society, challenging the authenticity of the news media.

Read from today's vantage point, the symbolism may seem too direct, if not obvious, but in its time the story was a radical, provocative statement – recognising that the new Israel had been built, in part, on the ruins of another society, displaced and dispossessed.

It was a spirited, provocative statement that left some particularly sensitive models and spectators in tears.

That's a fairly provocative statement, so allow me to explain my reasoning in detail.