He also urged the EU to "embrace Turkey", and added, provocatively: "If Russia did not join the west, it will become a satellite of China".
Yet that is precisely what he did in writing a six-volume, 3,600-page novel-cum-autobiography, provocatively titled My Struggle – or in Norwegian Min Kamp.
However, unlike the Irish singer's classic, the Cyrus video transforms into her posing provocatively in underwear and, ultimately, naked.
The Financial Times, while conceding that the SNP opposes "the existence of the UK as we know it" and "might behave provocatively [by] tugging a weak Labour government to the left" thinks this "cause for concern, but not panic".
Further, a fair-haired Manga-like bimbo, "Miss Ko2", was provocatively posed in a corner of mirrored walls in the Salon of War, facing a statue of Jupiter.
Fretilin, which currently has about two-thirds of parliamentary seats, is furious that Mr Gusmão has chosen a name so provocatively similar to that of the National Council of Timorese Resistance the alliance of parties, led by Fretilin, that campaigned against Indonesian rule in the late 1990s.Both Mr Ramos-Horta and Mr Guterres are projecting themselves as healers and uniters.
American and British aircraft would no longer need to be based provocatively in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and elsewhere.
"Setting the People Free" is lucidly and provocatively written, even if the argument is too compressed at times for total comfort.
Alison Wolf of King's College London, the author of a book provocatively entitled "Does Education Matter?" says a big reason why school-leavers go to university is peer pressure.
On the face of it, the accord provocatively prejudges the outcome of the talks.
The left provocatively suggests an electoral pact with them.The Tories' half-hearted campaign in the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election (held on January 13th, as The Economist went to press), implicitly intended to boost the Lib Dems, angered the party's right.
