Sentence examples for considerable provocation from inspiring English sources

It was only after considerable provocation that police tempers began to fray and truncheons started to be used.

Despite considerable provocation, he has never wavered from his commitment to bipartisanship nor from the idea of America once again engaging with the world.

Ms Yingluck has promised to be conciliatory towards the army and her brother's other "establishment" opponents, if she is elected but by any measure this seemed to be a considerable provocation.Winning the election will be one thing, it seems, while actually being allowed to form a government could be quite another.

"These included Nathan's previous good disciplinary record, a considerable element of provocation, the fact that the player involved was not hurt and resumed playing and that he accepted an apology".

The provocation proved provocative.

A few more years of doing nothing will mean not only more provocations, but also a considerable increase in North Korea's nuclear capabilities, missile technology and, perhaps, proliferation.

MARK PADMORE: "WINTERREISE" A male duo takes back Schubert's masterwork two days later, but the pairing is unconventional to the point of provocation: Padmore has made his considerable reputation singing pre-Romantic music, while his accompanist, Ethan Iverson, is famous as the pianist for the impetuous indie-jazz trio the Bad Plus.

Apart from all else, their presence would be a considerable moral deterrent should the Israeli government, under provocation from militants on both sides, rethink the "self-restraint" that holds it back from reclaiming Palestinian-controlled land.

Considerable interindividual variability in response to endotoxin has been observed in endotoxin provocation experiments with naïve subjects (Kline et al. 1999).

The discussion posts are usually focused on a single topic (or, as happens in some cases, the posts are purposeful deviations from this topic) but there is considerable variation in the content of messages, which include informative text, humor, sarcasm, provocation and aggression [15].

An earlier generation of atheists were brash and offensive but their provocations were generally directed at a church that still possessed considerable institutional power.