Sentence examples for an act of provocation from inspiring English sources

Sailing at a time of crisis could be interpreted as an act of provocation in itself.

He described it not as an act of provocation, but one of duty.

Rylance added: "Acting in the illegal settlements seems to me an act of provocation and disrespect.

He said there were still unanswered questions about whether the act was an act of provocation.

It has become as much an act of provocation and one of censorship.

But for some of Mr Valls's colleagues, his words amounted to an act of provocation, if not of heresy.

In an open letter on Islam4UK's website, Choudary denied the march was "merely an act of incitement or provocation".

It was an act of extreme provocation and brought the superpowers to the brink of nuclear war.

It turns out not to be an act of artistic provocation: it's just their monitor engineer has gone missing.

In France, Europe's most adamantly secular nation, the constitution gives schools power to ban any religious symbol worn as an "act of pressure, provocation, proselytism or propaganda".

All of which will be moot by Feb. 25, when we can finally look at "The Passion of the Christ" for what it is -- part of a long and tangled movie tradition as well as an act of cultural provocation.