Sentence examples for provocation taking place from inspiring English sources

But as I looked up from time to time, it struck me that among other things, amid all of the sustained touching, billing and cooing, there was willful, if mild, provocation taking place before my eyes.

"That means there is some kind of provocation to the French government taking place".

Others suggested that its Visiting Forces Arrangement, under which the exercises were taking place, was an unnecessary provocation to China.

PACAP38 provocation studies have demonstrated neuronal and vascular changes taking place in the brains of migraine sufferers both ictally and interictally.

Taking place around five South Korean islands along the southwestern coast of North Korea, they tested South Korea's ability to strike enemy sites in case of a North Korean provocation.

Even as the vigils were taking place, the Russian authorities shrugged off the controversy, saying that the group's protest at an Arctic oil platform owned by state-controlled firm Gazprom had been "pure provocation".

He told me that all he had wanted from "Columbia Unbecoming" was "to stop the ideological assault on Israel" that was taking place on campus and "to help students learn to make Israel's case and teach them how to respond" to provocations from people who put "utopian demands on Israel and at the same time apply a double standard" to the Arab world.

Deals are already taking place.

Where is fracking taking place?

Nonetheless, changes are taking place.

Like any customer visiting his main arms dealer, Assad praised Russian actions in Georgia, explaining that "we understand the Russian stance and the Russian military response as a result of the provocations which took place.