Sentence examples for reacted to provocation from inspiring English sources
The Gunners boss was clearly not impressed with the referee after he ended the game with nine men; Gabriel Paulista reacted to provocation from controversial striker Diego Costa and Santi Cazorla was shown two yellow cards.
The 21-year-old reacted to provocation by Honduras midfielder Wilson Palacios by kicking out during the first half of Sunday's 3-0 vintory in Group E. Both players escaped with a yellow card at the Porto Alegre stadium.
Yet simply reacting to provocation isn't enough.
There has been a lot of intimidation and we have to ensure that our people do not react to provocation".
But there is a world of difference between reacting to provocation by Revolutionary Guard boats and bombing sovereign territory.
Kiev had asked its forces in Crimea, numbering around 3,500 and facing up to 30,000 better-armed Russians, not to "react to provocation".
On the one hand, he's keen to set some kind of record straight, explaining in detail the context that he feels went unreported, particularly the extent to which he was reacting to provocation.
The England manager, Roy Hodgson, and the team's captain, Wayne Rooney, had appealed for calm earlier in the week, and the FA's chief executive, Martin Glenn, wrote to fans to tell them not to react to provocation.
The cops may well have been reacting to provocation, but their alleged brutality represents a chilling snap from a stance of edgy tolerance to something more violent.
The cops may well have been reacting to provocation, but their alleged brutality represents a chilling snap from a stance of edgy tolerance to something far more draconian.
He also urged police not to react to provocations from demonstrators.
