Sentence examples for provocation to push from inspiring English sources
"During the Skype conversation, they said that the gas attack on the two neighborhoods in Damascus had been carried out by rebels as a provocation, to push the West towards a military intervention.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev echoed the suggestion that the killing was a provocation: "It's an attempt to push the situation into complications, maybe even to destabilising the situation in the country".
My stepfather knew not to push me too far, because given enough provocation, I would have at least tried to kill him.
Indeed, on Mr Sang's heels in India came Myanmar's president, Thein Sein, as India attempts to make up diplomatic ground it has lost to China.India also wants to push back against what it sees as Chinese provocations.
Pakistan's provocations are intended to keep world attention on Kashmir, but it is not in Pakistan's interests to push too far.
Jim Mallinder, Northampton's director of rugby, suggested even the best players were liable to "push it too far occasionally" and that Hartley had turned the other cheek in the face of deliberate provocation in big matches often enough to suggest his temperament was not a major problem.
Pistons have to push and be pushed.
You have to push and push".
