Sentence examples for provocative attack from inspiring English sources

This provocative attack is reprehensible and is in direct violation of the Armistice Agreement.

His book, "You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto", published earlier this year, is a provocative attack on many of the internet's sacred cows.

Although this followed an especially provocative attack by the Pakistani Taliban, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), on the country's busiest civilian airport, in Karachi on June 9th, the operation had been in the offing for months.

THIS week's bomb in the city of Samarra, which severely damaged the Askariya shrine, one of the four holiest for Iraq's Shia Muslims, was the most provocative attack on a Shia religious target since the American invasion three years ago.

In the end Jones backed down, and the world was spared the dull irony of a religious man commemorating 9/11 with an ignorant and deliberately provocative attack on the symbols of a major ideology he believed to be evil.

The potential of these India-focused groups, with or without clandestine collaboration by Pakistani security forces or A.Q. central, to repeat or exceed the scale of the provocative attack carried out in Mumbai on November 26 , 2008 presents, in my judgment, one of the most serious current threats to U.S. interests in the complex of risks and dangers posed by Al Qaeda.

LulzSec's provocative attacks and flamboyant style made it a tempting target.

Some of Mr. Holt's more provocative attacks have sparked criticism from newspapers.

Yet after a series of provocative attacks by the tiny Paraguayan People's Army (EPP), Mr Lugo now finds himself in a similar position to right-wing Latin American leaders of yesteryear.

He says he witnessed one of them punching a teenager in the stomach, and concludes they wanted "to obtain pictures of violence on the part of the demonstrators … using provocative attacks to achieve violent responses".

The Pakistani and Afghan branches of the Taliban mounted provocative attacks near military bases on Monday, the latest in a series of high-profile militant strikes on either side of the troubled border.