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Example sentences for: provocation

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After weeks of playing devil's advocate for Hussein, John McLaughlin ( The McLaughlin Group ) finally threw in completely with the dictator, endorsing Iraq's claim that Scott Ritter, the chief U.N. inspector, is a U.S. "spy" whose placement in Iraq was a "calculated and deliberate provocation."
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.
However, the sentence could just as well have appeared in a government report expressing an admonition to keep the numbers secret, based on the fact that numbers of such magnitude would anger the slaves' descendents and on an assumed law to the effect that sufficient provocation caused people to rebel.
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.
The pain provocation studies reported good validity for evaluation of pain in the cervical region but not in the lumbar area.