Sentence examples for direct provocation against from inspiring English sources

These days, playing songs extolling Fatah in public is a direct provocation against Hamas.

War against another country or group without direct provocation or assault is usually considered un-American.

By killing him without a direct provocation, Israel has played into Hamas's hands.

There, intelligence is viewed as suspect and chastity weird; virtue as smugness, and saintliness a direct provocation.

Hitler declared war on the United States without direct provocation and, when coupled with casualties fighting Hitler's Japanese allies in the Pacific, some 400,000 Americans (pdf) died.

The Kremlin saw that as a direct provocation, just as it saw closer Nato ties with Ukraine.

Alexei Grazhdankin, deputy director of the independent pollster Levada Center, said most Russians would "welcome a new Iron Curtain" and any sanctions against Turkey, since many view the attack on the plane as a "direct provocation and a test of how ready the country is to take decisive action" to protect its interests.

Moreover, BHR measured by direct provocation tests using methacholine or histamine reflects structural airway changes, compared to indirect provocation tests such as adenosine monophosphate or exercise which probably better reflects airway inflammation [ 38].

In summary, current evidence supporting direct provocation of coughing by refluxate stimulating the pharynx/larynx or airways is scant in patients with chronic cough.

If so, they say, he could feel emboldened to carry out a military provocation against South Korea.

Did he feel his manhood crushed by the gentle feminist provocation against male modes of power?