Sentence examples for be a provocation from from inspiring English sources
He said earlier that the incident could be a "provocation" from sections of the PKK opposed to talks between the state and the group's imprisoned leader, Abdullah Ocalan, aimed at persuading the PKK to disarm.
"This proposal is a provocation from Belgrade, and we reject it 100percentt," Kosovo's deputy prime minister, Hajredin Kuqi, said in a telephone interview from Pristina.
At best, you could say this was crass and ill timed, at worst, it was a provocation that demonstrators – hailing from all manner of groups to unite as anti-fascists – were more than willing to rise to.
Indeed, their visible wealth and prosperity are a provocation to the youths feeling excluded from even remotely similar opportunities.
"This business from Great Britain is a provocation, not just to Argentina but also to the United Nations," Argentina's foreign minister, Hector Timerman, said on Wednesday.
From anyone else it would seem like a rip-off, but from her, it's a provocation, a dare.
