Sentence examples for open provocation from inspiring English sources

The resulting plan tries to strike a balance between appeasing domestic ire and maintaining Colombia's image abroad as a serious regional player.The studied ambiguity of Mr Santos's strategy prevented Nicaragua from treating the speech as an open provocation.

It is curious that the president tolerates such open provocation from people in his administration and connected to it, given that the clamor sets him up to look soft on Saddam if he doesn't go after Iraq.

Morales said when he finally arrived in La Paz: "It is an open provocation to the continent, not only to the president; they use the agent of North American imperialism to scare us and intimidate us".

Ivica Dacic, Serbia's prime minister, has called the memorial an "open provocation" and said that it has to be taken down by January 17th or he will have it demolished.Local Albanian leaders have now called on Albania to give them diplomatic support.

It might be tempting to cast this move as open "provocation" towards Russia, but it is less so if you visit Riga's Museum of Occupations, where one small nation's history of being invaded and persecuted by large powers (Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union) is vividly recounted.

"It is an open provocation to the continent, not only to the president; they use the agent of North American imperialism to scare us and intimidate us," Morales told about 100 supporters gathered at the airport in La Paz to greet him.

Then there are the open provocations: not only the public agitation by government ministers for equal Jewish access to the Haram al-Sharif but also the encroachment by rightist archeological organizations on the neighborhood of Silwan, and the marches by tens of thousands of radical nationalist yeshiva students through Nablus Gate on Jerusalem Day.

Because otherwise this situation is very open to provocation".

Witnesses said at the time of the shooting that Israeli troops opened fire without provocation as he walked in the street.

The State Department says the guards were defending themselves after a diplomatic convoy was ambushed by a car bomb; the Iraqi authorities, backed by eyewitnesses, say Blackwater's men opened fire without provocation.

According to General Dostum's supporters, the general merely wanted to speak with his party deputy about a political matter, and the deputy's supporters opened fire without provocation.