Sentence examples for international provocation from inspiring English sources

Even if the zoo wasn't seeking to create an international provocation, it had made a bold public-relations decision: it would defend its right to kill a giraffe by showing itself to be unembarrassed about killing a giraffe.

Obama responded to a legitimate international provocation — Assad's use of chemical weapons banned by the Geneva Conventions — in a way that was warranted by precedent and the prevailing political currents.

She said the People's Committee was deciding whether to put me on trial for espionage and "international provocation".

However, until upper-house elections in July, some analysts expect Mr Abe to tread gently and keep international provocations to a minimum in the hope that voters will give the LDP a majority there, too.

The other is that, through a mixture of international indifference, Kremlin provocation and cock-eyed Caucasian machismo, both may at any moment devolve from uneasy truce to renewed fighting (see article).

International responses to the provocation are limited as well.

2. We shouldn't start wars without immediate provocation and international support.

AT the 2008 Telluride Film Festival, the madcap philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek presented Dusan Makavejev's 1968 film "Innocence Unprotected" as part of a program of personal favorites: a shout-out from the Balkans' current international superstar of intellectual provocation to his most illustrious predecessor.

Assad's government has repeatedly denied using its chemical arsenal, calling the Aug. 21 attack outside Damascus a provocation by rebels intended to persuade the international community to intervene.

"Vietnam should immediately stop any interruptive activities and undertake corresponding consequences and international responsibilities for its provocations".. Japan has urged calm.

The provocation proved provocative.