Sentence examples for major provocation from inspiring English sources

"I see the possibility of war receding unless there is a major provocation".

Ms. Schneidmill, however, said that that Ms. Brown simply "jumped on him and stabbed him," without any major provocation.

Both support tough economic sanctions against the regime, while Trump has not ruled out a military response to a major provocation.

I was struck by something I heard the poet Rosanna Warren say, that art is a formal question responding to a major provocation in reality.

Kerry said the launch was "a major provocation, threatening not only the security of the Korean peninsula but that of the region and the United States as well".

April 25 is another major anniversary in North Korea, the birthday of the Korean People's Army, and some analysts say the North might try to celebrate with a major provocation.

Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have ebbed since the joint American-South Korean military exercises ended late last month without major provocations, like a nuclear test, from North Korea.

Russia, as the New York Times' Clifford Levy reports, is more friendly to American interests these days, but is unlikely to endorse a strong sanctions regime without major provocations by Iran; one expert quoted by Mr Levy says Russia considers Iran a "regional ally" due to its restraint over Russia's slaughter of its co-religionists in Chechnya.

Effective distribution of the first aid commodities, medicals, and blood supplies, management of inventory level of these products, evacuation, and transportation are major provocations (Cozzolino 2012).

But senior Israeli officials have warned that they might answer new provocation with major military action.

From World War I right through the Persian Gulf War, the United States had never initiated hostilities or invaded a major country without the provocation of an attack from that country on this nation or its allies.