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provocations

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Plural of provocation

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She said: "His status as honorary president does not give him the right to hijack the Front National with vulgar provocations seemingly designed to damage me, but that unfortunately hit the whole movement".

On Monday morning, Sergey Taruta, the Kiev-appointed governor of Donetsk, said an "anti-terrorist operation" was under way in the region and called on citizens "not to react to provocations", but Slaviansk and the capital appeared to be quiet.

Sergei Aksyonov said the ban was necessary to avoid "provocations by extremists" and "disruption to the resort season".

"But it's good that soldiers in Crimea don't yield to provocations.

One cannot say the same about Hamas's provocations and its emotive TV footage, which are working quite nicely on world opinion.

Before the cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo were slaughtered, their own provocations were not widely encouraged or reprinted.

All its provocations mean that Yeezus will never be as beloved by as many people as, say, The College Dropout.

In London, the North Korea's ambassador to Britain made a rare speech to a foreign audience, defending Pyongyang's stance as a response to the provocations of the United States and South Korea.

The grand provocations in Yeezus are matched, step for step, by its craftsmanship.

The North Korean ambassador to Britain has made a rare speech to a foreign audience, defending Pyongyang's stance as a response to the provocations of the United States and South Korea.

In the case of Russia, pressure is on for sanctions to be tightened in response to Putin's constant provocations along his western flank.

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