Ministers, who are known to have been agonising over the benefits proposals, may have decided that would have been a provocation too far.
At the weekend, before the party disciplinary hearing, Marine Le Pen said her father was in "provocation" mode, and was acting maliciously and contemptuously towards her.
Without warning or provocation, the dog bit her on the right thigh.
Ewa Kopacz, Poland's prime minister, previously called the plan a provocation.
He said Jock's behaviour in prison had been "exemplary under extreme provocation" and he accused Bulgarian authorities of being "capricious" and "vindictive".
He invented diction in order to startle the audience into some sort of awareness – lines like, 'I'm going out for an eight-cylinder sandwich.'" With only a little provocation, he ran critically through the galaxy of twentieth century playwrights, beginning with Eugene O'Neill.
We are being provoked by the US and South Korea and are only responding to that provocation and their military threats".
Éva Cserháti, of Hungary's Women United Against Violence (NaNe), told the Guardian the video caricatured female sexuality "almost to the level of a soft-porn movie" and suggested "that women should not drink or have fun in a way that is not completely acceptable to men, because this sort of behaviour is provocation".
The Polish prime minister, Ewa Kopacz, had previously called the rally a "provocation" possibly aimed at putting Poles "in danger of distress".
"The sham regime in Kinshasa is constantly committing irresponsible acts of provocation, plunging the nation into a total impasse that could lead to widespread chaos," Tshisekedi said.
And her sex was provocation enough for some without her antipathy to the politically correct movement, to whom her supposed lack of compassion was a red rag.
