Sentence examples for ethnic provocation from inspiring English sources

They contend that statewide races are very different from New York City contests, that the electorate is less sensitive to ethnic provocation.

His tenure was marked by strong Romanian nationalism and acts of ethnic provocation against the Hungarian-speaking minority.

Gheorghe Funar, mayor of Cluj-Napoca from 1992 to 2004, was notorious for acts of ethnic provocation, bedecking the city's streets in the colours of the Romanian flag and arranging pickets outside the city's Hungarian consulate; however, tensions have subsided since.

Mr. Paladino's response to Italians upset by his ethnic provocations: Stop being so touchy.

Later, he reported that there had been some ethnic provocations of people believed to be of Arab descent.

That's true of insults as well; it also is true of ethnic and gender provocations — because, with the French rhetorical gift for detaching language from action, if what is said is merely sociable — a joke — then it doesn't really mean anything bad.

He put a plaque on the statue of King Matyas in the town center that qualified his military successes -- a deliberate provocation to ethnic Hungarians who revere Matyas.

The provocation proved provocative.

Even so, urban space is highly fragmented, with little provocation needed for ethnic and political tensions to flare up.

Still, Mayor Cosic insists that the erection of a statue to the assassin should not be viewed as an act of provocation to Bosnia's other ethnic groups.

The DUI reportedly called the incident Tuesday a "provocation" intended to sidetrack the country from achieving ethnic integration, and told citizens "not to worry".