Sentence examples for provocation over from inspiring English sources

Ms Le Pen, the leader of the French far-right party since 2011, accused her father and predecessor of  committing "political suicide" and "vulgar provocation" over his interview with an ultra-right, anti-Semitic magazine.

A6 Provocation Over Pinochet The president-elect of Chile, Ricardo Lagos, has harshly criticized the hero's welcome staged by the armed forces for Gen. Augusto Pinochet's return to Chile, kindling a controversy that is testing Mr. Lagos's relationship with the powerful military less than a week before he takes power.

Vietnam's quest for sovereignty and self-rule from China has long been a thorn in its side, as has what Vietnam sees as China's endless provocation over maritime boundaries around the Paracel and Spratly island chains in the South China Sea – an area to which about 10 countries lay full, or partial, claim – because of its rich oil and gas reserves.

Argentina has accused the UK of provocation over plans to hold military exercises in the Falkland Islands.

"Trump expressed his intention to halt the U.S. South Korea joint military exercises, which the DPRK side regards as provocation, over a period of good-will dialogue between the DPRK and the U.S., offer security guarantees to the DPRK and [to] lift sanctions against it along with advance in improving the mutual relationship through dialogue and negotiation," KCNA said.

It may harbour similar suspicions about Japan and its "provocations" over what China calls the Diaoyu islands.

But as soon as Richard Keen, a defense lawyer with a talent for provocation, took over in mid-afternoon, Mr. Talb lost his temper.

As usual she's been playing a solitary hand, shuffling contradictions, dealing provocations, turning over anguished faces, numbing numerals, even a jumping jack ("we have lids on our eyes, we do not have doors on our ears").

Another said it was just a matter of "security fatigue" here after so many years of living with their unpredictable neighbour: "There have been so many verbal provocations over the years.

That federal Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen's response to Ontario's provocations over asylum seekers was to characterize immigration fearmongering as "not Canadian" suggests the Trudeau Liberals a) really need to read a Canadian history book and b) still haven't learned how to read a room.

Philip Roth, who has just turned eighty, has been writing novels, stories, essays, autobiographical books, and other species of cultural provocation for over half a century now.