Sentence examples for deliberate provocative from inspiring English sources

Most ominously, Khartoum's failure to impose order was being interpreted by the African tribes as deliberate, provocative policy.

It's not a poverty-induced bleeding of the poor across the U.S. border but a deliberate, provocative act by one nation against another: something like an invasion.

It's deliberately provocative.

The method is deliberately provocative.

In a statement the ministry said, China "will resolutely respond to any country's deliberate provocations" and urged the US not to "take any dangerous or provocative acts that threaten China's sovereignty and security interests".

However, there are some who read your statement, alleging that you represent the players, as a deliberate and provocative challenge to the integrity and independence of the players and their duly elected representatives".

Offence is emphatically not a reason for censorship (hardly anything is), whereas a deliberate and provocative violation of "social responsibility, decency, matters of opinion and truthfulness" is most definitely a fit subject for criticism.

Others could believe it too well: there was something depressingly predictable in Garitano's use of Euskera, as often happens with Catalan or Galego too, being interpreted by some as an implicit threat, as if it was a determined, deliberate and provocative political stance.

After years of wartime rationing, this deliberate abundance was provocative to supporters, and blasphemous to detractors.

The provocation proved provocative.

I mean a deliberate, public and no doubt provocative celebration of Englishness – but of the new England, the one evolving before our eyes.