Sentence examples for for a provocation from inspiring English sources

On Friday he called for a campaign of civil disobedience and urged the demonstrators to remain peaceful, saying, "Let's not give grounds for a provocation".

What should have been a lawful right had become the trigger for a provocation defence that led to Keogh being found not guilty of murder and serving a mere three years and 11 months in jail.

"For this reason Erdogan has gone for a provocation, expecting that we will conduct ourselves recklessly, emotionally, we'll be thinking up steps in response that will provoke a crisis in relations between Russia and the West, after which it won't be possible to talk about any coalition or any definitive actions by us in Syria," he said. .

Ms. Ivekovic also named her golden lady for the martyred Marxist Rosa Luxemburg, quite a provocation for one of Europe's banking capitals.

Thus the methodology posed in this paper is not merely a provocation for video research for teachers and learners in classrooms where learning takes place.

Baseline vessel diameter was measured for 50 s, followed by a provocation with flicker light of the same wavelength for 20 s and then a nonflicker period for 80 s.

His message as he dominated the media landscape was a call for the people of Egypt to press their government for more political freedoms, a provocation in a nation where dissent is hardly tolerated and where a viable political opposition has not been allowed to grow.

"It's a provocation for the market," said Mr. Perrone, who is 39.

The fugue has also served as a provocation for contemporary composers.

It could be, for example, done as a provocation by Palestinian elements".

"Historically, it was a provocation for black men to wear the uniform, to claim that role," Stevenson said.