Going forward, let's agree to call the uncertainty principle the "uncertainty relations" or even the less provocative "quantum standard deviation constraints".
Another piece, by Xu Cheng, makes use recordings of people engaging in telephone sex and arranging casual trysts on a chat line, a subject considered provocative by Chinese standards, Mr. Shi said.
Known for championing unusual works and provocative interpretations of standard repertory, the company chose to play it safe for its debut as a nomadic outfit, offering a traditional and inoffensive staging of Verdi's "Traviata".
While Westerners may imagine Chinese television as a staid remnant of the Communist-controlled information system, the reality is that more than a decade of media commercialization has made television here — particularly provincial satellite channels with national audiences — provocative, even by Western standards.
The Spanish government has set a standard of provocative and highly combative strike-busting action through previous disputes.
Sander's brand of engaged objectivity — five excellent examples of which open this savvy, provocative show — set the standard for the sort of straightforward, carefully observed portraiture at which fashion photographers often excel.
As Jonathan Bober, formerly the Blanton's senior curator of European art (now at the National Gallery), puts it in the show's catalog, " 'Storied Past' implies an unconventional, at times eccentric, and often provocative counterpoint to the standard history of French draftsmanship".
The provocation proved provocative.
— Theater directors and students at more than 40 high schools across the country have selected a new show for their big springtime musical this year: "Rent: School Edition," a modified version of the hit Broadway musical that, while toned down a bit, remains provocative by traditional drama club standards.
But proponents of MMR usually have something stronger and more provocative in mind: That the standards of justification in the two societies may differ from one another and that there is no rational basis for resolving these differences.
