Sentence examples for into a provocation from inspiring English sources
"It's Bush, pushing us into a provocation with Israel," was a typical comment.
The Vatican, never keen on gay rights, says it fears that next month's parade may turn into a "provocation".
China has tended to restrain itself while pressuring neighboring countries into a provocation.
May result in a provocation.
These outbreaks of violence stoke fears that the move further into Bangkok is a provocation designed to escalate violence, thus opening the door to military intervention – an accusation that the protesters firmly deny.
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Putting aside that this is a regular joke on "The Colbert Report," it makes him sound like a buffoon, as real as the visions in his head, turning what could have been a provocation into a silly theater of the absurd.
As eventually staged, the actor Martin Balsam played the scene in the not-entirely-altogether, but shortly after the show closed, the critic Walter Kerr, writing in The New York Times Magazine, credited (or blamed) Mr. Anderson for a spate of shows (including "Hair") that had turned the exposure of flesh onstage from a provocation into a yawn.
In her Catalysis performances (1970), Piper turned herself into a human provocation in public places such as the New York subway.
"Read My Lips" appropriated George H. W. Bush's famous line from the 1988 Republican National Convention, turning it into a homoerotic provocation.
"Kissing Doesn't Kill" (1990), a series of posters displayed on buses, defied contemporary claims that AIDS could be spread by kissing, while "Read My Lips" turned George H.W. Bush's famous campaign line into a homoerotic provocation.
