Unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment.
Something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action.
1 Even a very tiny provocation could result in regional deterioration, Nisman said.
2 Female provocation does not usually lead to a pileup of corpses, however.
3 Saakashvili, however, insists he was forced to act after intolerable Russian provocation .
4 The increase in plasma histamine levels for exercise provocation test also improved.
5 Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said all sides should avoid provocation .
6 The provocation and the relationship were two relevant circumstances in that case.
7 Some interviewers will listen to see if you answer it without provocation .
8 Within days, the international angst transfers from the provocation to the retaliation.
9 And the provocation in this instance was, of course, of the slightest.
10 An instance of his forbearance under provocation is afforded in the following:-
11 So we would have been provoked to war; and resisted the provocation .
12 The reaction was exactly proportioned to the pressure,-thevengeance to the provocation .
13 He wasn't certain how to respond to that claim -or provocation .
14 Whatever the provocation , the behaviour of the Germans was that of savages.
15 More blatant provocation was needed if she was to learn anything worthwhile.
16 Light provocation arouses its anger; and once aroused, its wrath is all-consuming.
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