Sentence examples for apparent provocation from inspiring English sources

Witnesses said the officer had acted without apparent provocation.

Ideas ricochet off one another by free association, while recurrent anxieties spring up without apparent provocation.

A male, perhaps the father of the baby, jumped onto the branch, in apparent provocation.

Kohli stunned onlookers when he walked over to and shouted at the Hindustan Times journalist Jasvinder Sidhu without apparent provocation.

Mr. Abdulkader said the company's guards opened fire on the vehicles in the traffic circle without warning or apparent provocation.

On September 14th, Japan's coast guard reported that six Chinese patrol ships entered Japanese territorial waters, in an apparent provocation.

Cruttwell made no apparent response to these provocations, other than a dismissive reference to Waugh as "a silly suburban sod with an inferiority complex".

The provocation proved provocative.

Should we be searching for a chemical cause and cure when the provocation of grief is so apparent?

England's wicketkeeper was defending the various forms of provocation directed - without much apparent success, as far as I could see - at India's batsmen during the second Test at Trent Bridge.

It was a warning — perhaps an intentional one — of the violence and provocation now occurring in eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian paramilitaries are increasingly active, with the apparent connivance of the Kremlin.