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Example sentences for: provocation

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Calling Goldhagen a Zionist propagandist seemed an act of provocation, to say the least, and so it was taken.
Moralism is certainly alive in today's rock (mostly around subjects like the death penalty and Tibet), but it seems quite ably offset by crass irony, silly provocation, emotional retardation of most pop culture.
When there is no perfect reference standard, as in the case of measurement of a patient's sense of pain provocation, i.e., pressing on a "tender point" or "trigger point", then pragmatic criteria can be used as a reference standard [ 42 ] . The visual analog pain scale has been used as a pragmatic reference standard for palpatory pain provocation tests.
Every official we questioned about the possibility of an invasion of Afghanistan said that it was almost unthinkable, absent a provocation such as 9/11, because of poor prospects for cooperation from Pakistan and other nations and because they believed the public would not support it.
Like Rockefeller 100 years ago, Gates came to the national attention with a pugnacious, imperial style that irritated government lawyers who needed no provocation to do what they were hired to do.