Sentence examples for considered it a provocation from inspiring English sources
Matlock's invitation to ballerina Maya Plisetskaya to attend a reception at Spaso House provided a way for Matlock to judge Gorbachev's intentions, as earlier Soviet leaders would have considered it a provocation.
In mid-March, the Republic provided a pretext for an attack on itself by appointing her own candidate to the vacant bishopric of Vicenza (an act in keeping with prevailing custom, though Julius considered it a personal provocation); the Pope called for all Christian nations to join him in an expedition to subdue Venice.
It would be considered a provocation of the employees".
Washington and European capitals are preparing new sanctions that would sever Iran from the international banking system, a move that would cripple its economy and that Tehran has said it would consider a provocation to war.
"If we had stopped them right from the beginning it might have been considered a provocation and things might have gotten out of hand".
Last week, Russian fighter jets passed over the warship in a move the Pentagon considered a provocation, but it is unclear what the dolphins would have done to confront Russian airpower.
What was once considered a threat, a provocation, an outrage -- now it's just another way of making a point.
"It is absolutely unacceptable and we consider this a provocation," Russian ambassador to the U.K. Alexander Yakovenko told Sky News on Wednesday.
In much of Europe today, a veiled girl in a public-school classroom is considered a provocation, and not always by her own choice.
They intend to make such movements responsible for acts considered to be a provocation to suicide or incitement to abandon families.
