Sentence examples for verbal provocation from inspiring English sources

"No matter what the physical or verbal provocation, I shouldn't have reacted like that.

Verbal provocation is never an excuse for violence – that's the wife-beater's defence.

Much of this lust for verbal provocation – the vicious one-liner, the perfectly timed insult – has carried over to Australia's sporting culture.

Victory for the youth team in the first of this season's Carling Cup outings was sparked by the dismissal of one of the club's graduates, Jerome Thomas, amid accusations from the visiting management that Jack Wilshere's verbal provocation had induced the sending-off.

"The parties have committed themselves to cease all verbal provocation and all military action," the secretary general of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, said at the signing ceremony, in the presence of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan, The Associated Press reported.

By using racial slurs and "verbal provocation", he writes, North Korea will do nothing to help resolve the nuclear weapons issue or bring about reunification with the south.

A connection between this and Trump's verbal provocations is not proven.

After weeks of verbal provocations North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, appeared to lower the diplomatic temperature over the weekend, saying the state's nuclear arsenal was strictly a deterrent.

It means exercising patience, ignoring some of his verbal provocations (many of which are attempts at distraction), pointing out that his policies are hurting the very people he is claiming to represent, and, above all, committing to beating him and his allies politically.

Betrayed, Merle ramps up his verbal provocations.

Another said it was just a matter of "security fatigue" here after so many years of living with their unpredictable neighbour: "There have been so many verbal provocations over the years.