provocations in English

noun
1
action or speech that makes someone annoyed or angry, especially deliberately.
you should remain calm and not respond to provocation
2
testing to elicit a particular response or reflex.
twenty patients had a high increase of serum gastrin after provocation with secretin

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1. Three more provocations (22)

2. Following some provocations, Rivière captured Hanoi in April 1882.

3. Louis responded to John XXII with fresh provocations.

4. In fact, China’s leaders have agonized over North Korea’s recent provocations.

5. A Cowering Response To China’s Provocations May Lose India More Territory BloombergQuint Opinion

6. We warn against possible provocations with the goal of disrupting the delivery.

7. This is an Abridgment of the history of Israel's provocations in the wilderness, and of the wrath of God against them for those provocations: and this Abridgment is abridged by the apostle, with application to us Christians (1 Cor.x

8. Antonyms for Acquiescences include challenges, dares, goads, provocations, taunts, spurs, invitations, summonses, threats and ultimatums

9. Was not this some excuse for incivility, if I was uncivil? But I have other provocations.

10. (1 Peter 2:21-23) Yes, Christian principles won out over the provocations of Satan.—Romans 12:21.

11. Moreover, Kiev continues to stage military provocations on the contact line and has not abandoned its militarist retaliation rhetoric.

12. Cavillings and rebellions (Malachi 2:17).Perhaps we have specially wearied the Lord, as we read in Amos 2:13, where singular provocations are mentioned

13. The second one, which is using them as objects to think with their architectural objects, I do a series of provocations, I say, "If this happens, then that.

14. The second one, which is using them as objects to think with their architectural objects, I do a series of provocations, I say, " If this happens, then that.

15. They are prone to fight at the slightest of provocations however certain Bugbears are adamant to overcome the issue due to the rewards earned from the virtue.

16. Beijing - Chinese media slammed the US Thursday for " Ceaseless provocations" in the South China Sea, with Washington expected to soon send warships close to artificial islands Beijing has built in disputed waters

17. Coloratura Mastering color, movement and craftsmanship, the 240 exquisite pieces of the Coloratura High Jewelry Collection awaken new provocations through dynamic pairings, energetic hues and intersecting inspirations as a result of the intimate dialog between the stones, their colors and the four corners of the globe.

18. Through his brilliant performances in frequently controversial art-house provocations such as VICTIM, THE SERVANT, DEATH IN VENICE, and THE NIGHT PORTER, Bogarde became something of an emblem of transgressive sexuality, moral corruption, and decadence—an Actorly embodiment of postwar Europe’s bourgeois malaise.

19. Coloratura Mastering color, movement and craftsmanship, the 240 exquisite pieces of the Coloratura High Jewelry Collection awaken new provocations through dynamic pairings, energetic hues and intersecting inspirations as a result of the intimate dialog between the stones, their colors and the four corners of the globe.

20. Sensing the worsening mood in the country, on 27 March 1947 deputies Raseta, Ravoahangy and Rabemananjara jointly issued a statement, urging the public to "maintain absolute calm and coolness in the face of manoeuvrings and provocations of all kind destined to stir up troubles among the Malagasy population and to sabotage the peaceful policy of the MDRM."

21. More than four decades after he took a razorblade to an eyeball and shocked the world with Un chien andalou, arch-iconoclast Luis Buñuel capped his astonishing career with three final provocations—The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, and That Obscure Object of Desire—in which his renegade, free-associating surrealism reached its audacious, self-detonating endgame.