Sentence examples for outright provocation from inspiring English sources
In battles over the environment, indeed over nearly every cause, photographs are marshaled as weapons, evidence and outright provocation.
Despite several convictions for anti-Semitic remarks, Dieudonné has strayed once again over the boundary between self-proclaimed anti-Zionism and outright provocation.
Its verdict is not pretty: the company says it will issue a AA rating.Paulo Rabello de Castro, who chairs the ratings committee at SR, describes the decision to rate Uncle Sam as "an outright provocation".
Cesar Gonzalez, head of the Falklands' veteran centre in Rio Grande, called the plate an "outright provocation", adding: "It had the number 982 – an allusion to the war [1982] and the letters FLK for the Falklands.
On the one hand it would be the height of insensitivity, not to say an outright provocation, for the Islamic community to build a giant Islamic shrine at the resting place of 3000 innocent Americans who were murdered by Islamic terrorists.
The North's National Defence Commission denounced the war games as "nothing but outright provocations aimed to stifle the Democratic People's Republic of Korea [North Korea] by force of arms," the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
It can be an act of rudeness, disgust, playfulness or outright sexual provocation.
The provocation proved provocative.
As Washington debates ground troops, time frames and end-games, Israel has found creative ways to get the message across to its enemies that even a minor provocation could result in their outright destruction.
A suggestion was even aired that there had been firing from the bases themselves.Pakistan responded with fury, denying any provocations and accusing the attackers of outright aggression: a deliberate assault on its sovereignty.
And it's hard not to draw a link between the aggravated pettiness if not outright Trump-esque trolling of Tarantino's recent comments on race, and the vitriolic provocation that characterizes The Hateful Eight.
