Sentence examples for provocative steps from inspiring English sources

"This is all part of the campaign of provocative steps to increase the pressure on Iran.

The statement warns that Russia will use all military means to protect South Ossetia "in case of further provocative steps".

Japan said at the time that it was acting to pre-empt Japanese nationalists from trying to take more provocative steps to assert control.

The proposed deployment was described as a message to Tehran not to take provocative steps, and was not preparation for an attack.

The Japanese government said it was acting to pre-empt the purchase of the islands by the nationalist former mayor of Tokyo, who wanted to build a lighthouse and take other more provocative steps to assert Japanese control.

In the ensuing weeks, North Korea took increasingly provocative steps, including expelling the international inspectors who were monitoring its nuclear facilities, restarting a nuclear reactor that could produce more plutonium, and withdrawing from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

But it does seem to me the most provocative step architecture could take at this time.

The Russian Foreign Ministry reacted swiftly and angrily on Friday to the House vote, calling it "a flagrantly unfriendly and provocative step," and pledged to retaliate.

Now, Colonel Davis has taken his most provocative step, completing his transformation from Guantánamo's chief prosecutor to its new chief critic.

Mr. Roh has made it clear that he believes it is too early to consider such a provocative step, which North Korea has called tantamount to war.

Seven months after demonstrators first took to the streets in Yemen calling for democracy, opposition leaders formed a national council on Wednesday to act as a government-in-waiting, a provocative step the government condemned even before it was announced.