Sentence examples for great provocation from inspiring English sources

Each respondent to great provocation from the other.

It would be regarded as a great provocation.

Tells the story of Mrs. William A. Conner, remarkable for her restrained utterance under great provocation.

Nor was political particularism, even under circumstances of great provocation and resentment, misanthropic.

Officers are occasionally placed in real danger and sometimes subjected to great provocation.

"In addition to the great provocation, there must be passion and hot blood caused by that provocation.

He probably wouldn't even with greater provocation than he gets in this play.

The greatest provocation to Mr Putin is to fail to stand up to him, and the least costly time to resist him is now.

Masson comes across in the book as a bit silly rather than immoral, a reminder that wounding someone's vanity is a greater provocation than ostensibly graver injuries.

The Six-Day War of 1967 was launched by Israel in self-protection, admittedly in the face of far greater provocation than Iraq ever gave the United States.

Their greatest provocation to the establishment has been to eschew the industry's built­-in obsolescence, to challenge the very fabric of time.