Sentence examples for were highly provocative from inspiring English sources

Iran's "actions were highly provocative", he said.

Far from defusing the situation, the remarks of President Thein Sein were highly provocative.

Iran's "actions were highly provocative," said a US Central Command spokesman this morning.

The leaking of the speech was highly provocative.

But researchers who are familiar with the four proteins said the finding was highly provocative given what was known about them.

But the move will be viewed as being highly provocative by opponents of embryo research and will be vigorously opposed by many religious leaders and politicians.

A censor board said the film, "Final Solution," was "highly provocative and may trigger off unrest and communal violence," the BBC reported.

In a genre in which it is controversial to claim that the Vatican lied about Christ having kids, The Last Bookaneer is highly provocative.

The minicells do not seem to be highly provocative to the immune system, even though they are made of bacterial cell membrane.

Mr. LaBute, who specializes in nasty, has transformed his petty thought into a tough-minded play whose ideas are highly provocative, even by its author's own prickly standards.

Spike Lee's Bamboozled does so to great effect, Jean Genet's The Blacks is a minstrel show written by a white playwright that is highly provocative and charged with racial tension to expose the hypocrisy and deeply embedded racism found at all levels of society.