Sentence examples for string of provocative from inspiring English sources

In his string of provocative remarks, some strategists see calibration.

"North Korea unfortunately has put together a string of provocative actions, from missile firings to a nuclear test to the sinking of the Cheonan," he told reporters.

When Cyril, who had been authorized to execute the sentence upon Nestorius, produced a string of provocative anathemas for him to subscribe to or face excommunication, Nestorius and his allies took alarm, and he persuaded the emperor Theodosius to convene a general church council.

The protests were just the latest in a string of provocative incidents involving the Haredim, which have rattled Israel's secular mainstream.

The video, released on YouTube on Friday by North Korea's DPRK Today, was the latest in a string of provocative words and actions by the isolated nation.

His comments about Libya came after a string of other provocative remarks about foreign policy and related issues.

Jacobs, who has issued a string of brilliant and provocative recordings on the Harmonia Mundi label, is seen here much less often, and his conducting of "Solomon," by turns opulent and intimate, humorous and savage, forbiddingly grand and envelopingly warm, was the revelation of the season.

There was a provocative string of posts on Twitter by a faux Shaquille O'Neal.

Mr. Hytner, 56, succeeded Trevor Nunn as the company's director in April 2003, and oversaw a particularly lively era, with a string of hit productions and provocative stagings that included "The History Boys," "War Horse," "London Road" and his "Jerry Springer: The Opera".

In 1984 they moved to London, where, under the tutelage of provocative promoter Alan McGee, they released a string of innovative postpunk singles beginning with "Upside Down" and elicited riotlike responses to truncated live performances that seldom exceeded 20 minutes.

The rest of the story is now well known, taking in Cabaret Voltaire, a string of barely comprehensible poems, African chants, provocative dress and raucous parties.