Sentence examples for provocative security from inspiring English sources

Traumatized Israelis cling to the false hope that their lives will be made safer by incremental unilateral withdrawals from occupied areas, while Palestinians see their remnant territories reduced to little more than human dumping grounds surrounded by a provocative "security barrier" that embarrasses Israel's friends and fails to bring safety or stability.

In September, an entire delegation of indignant North Korean officials en route to New York pulled out of a United Nations summit meeting after what they said was "rude and provocative" treatment by security agents working for AMR's American Airlines at the Frankfurt airport.

Barack Obama said Tuesday's test was a highly provocative act that violated security council resolutions and posed a threat to US and international security.

Barack Obama said the test was a highly provocative act that violated security council resolutions and posed a threat to US and international security.

Researchers for Human Rights Watch attribute much of the frustration in Ngaba to the smothering security and "provocative policing techniques".

While the leader of the Sunni Future Movement, Saad Hariri, remains outside Lebanon because of security fears, provocative figures have stepped into the leadership vacuum in Tripoli and Sidon, Lebanon, to tap into Sunni anger, often using sharp anti-Shiite language.

Indeed, what made Hagel such an interesting secretary of defense candidate was that he was willing to make provocative statements about national security and the actual limits on US power.

The provocation proved provocative.

"We agreed that even though the launch was a failure, it was a provocative action that threatens international security," said Mr. Campbell, the highest U.S. diplomat to travel to Northeast Asia since the North's failed launching.

A statement from the White House by Tommy Vietor, the National Security Council spokesman, called the launch a "a highly provocative act that threatens regional security, directly violates United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1718 and 1874, contravenes North Korea's international obligations, and undermines the global nonproliferation regime".

Lofting a satellite would "constitute a highly provocative action, threatening peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia," Cho Byung-jae, the spokesman of the South Korean Foreign Ministry, said in a statement.