Sentence examples for a provocative step from inspiring English sources

Mr. Roh has made it clear that he believes it is too early to consider such a provocative step, which North Korea has called tantamount to war.

Seven months after demonstrators first took to the streets in Yemen calling for democracy, opposition leaders formed a national council on Wednesday to act as a government-in-waiting, a provocative step the government condemned even before it was announced.

They are widely seen as a possible prelude to the arrests of Mr. Karroubi and Mr. Moussavi — a provocative step that hard-line clerics and military commanders have been calling for lately.

With the 15-member council called to an ­emergency session last night, ­diplomats scrambled to forge a unified front against the test which was seen as a provocative step towards North Korea gaining a full nuclear arsenal.

The recently collected Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Birth Cohort, a large and representative sample of over 10,000 infants assessed at 9 and 24 months, took a provocative step toward trying to improve the validity of measures of infants' environmental conditions.

Then the Obama administration took a provocative step of its own.

"There are a lot of studies which show exposure to pets and/or livestock reduces prevalence of allergic disorders, so this is an exciting and provocative step in understanding the mechanism behind that," says Suzanne Havstad, a biostatistician at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, who was not involved with the work.

At the conclusion of the negotiations, North Korea joined the United States, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia in pledging to hold another round of negotiations and to refrain from taking any provocative steps to heighten the situation in the meantime.

After a day of meetings in Beijing with President Xi Jinping and other top Chinese officials on Saturday, he said both governments called on North Korea "to refrain from any provocative steps and that obviously refers to any future missile shoot".

The Russian Foreign Ministry reacted swiftly and angrily on Friday to the House vote, calling it "a flagrantly unfriendly and provocative step," and pledged to retaliate.

Victoria Nuland, the State Department spokeswoman, called the installation of the advanced machines "yet another provocative step" and "a further escalation" in Iran's continuing violation of the United Nations demand that Tehran suspend its program of uranium enrichment.