Sentence examples for overt provocation from inspiring English sources

Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev, called this an "overt provocation".

The French president at the time, Jacques Chirac, called the newspaper's actions an "overt provocation," and several French Muslim groups sued the paper and editor Philippe Val for "public insults against a group of people because of their religious affiliation".

Anxious to avoid overt provocation of the Soviets, Washington allowed Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to choose the recipients of American taxpayer dollars, and these were the most fundamentalist insurgent factions -- like the Haqqani network, which plagues Afghanistan even today and has targeted American soldiers serving there.

The provocation proved provocative.

Much of the work in that exhibition had an embedded provocation, but didn't necessarily make an overt political statement.

The provocation?

Nothing overt.

A provocation?

Overt hostility?

Overt racism?

More provocation!