Sentence examples for a result of provocation from inspiring English sources

Stephen Kamlish QC, defending, told the jury that Hyde had acted as a result of provocation, in self-defence, and provided what he said was compelling new evidence that Hyde was suffering from an abnormality of the mind that substantially diminished her responsibility for the killing.

Like any customer visiting his main arms dealer, Assad praised Russian actions in Georgia, explaining that "we understand the Russian stance and the Russian military response as a result of the provocations which took place.

Asthma was defined as a positive result of provocation test or PEF variability rate >20% [ 8].

This case is a result of either monstrous provocation or psychosis".

The use of the words "merciless" and "pitiless" in President Hollande's response is also the sort of language they prefer us to use, adopting some of their own extremism as a result of an intolerable provocation.

Possibly, reactive aggression is differentiated better from proactive aggression when the definition includes aggression only as a result of a true provocation, as compared with broader definitions that also include for example aggression in anticipation to a perceived threat.

However, provocation was strictly interpreted at the time and the diminished responsibility defence was enacted only in 1957, partly as a result of Ellis's case.

Merriman treats all Communard atrocities as the result of provocations and a misguided effort at self-defense — the Archbishop was taken hostage partly to protect the life of the left-wing leader Blanqui, then in a Versaillais prison — while atrocities committed against the Communards were, in his account, solely the consequence of an evil campaign of reactionary terror.

Moreover, the group included the brother and the father of the patient with history of SCA, one with a negative and the other with a positive result of pharmacological provocation test.

Concurrently, this polymorphism was confirmed in neither of the patients with negative results of provocation test.

- Identification of any correlation between the results of provocation tests for SIS and the existence of active MTrPs.