Provocations Sentence Examples

This, however, does not prevent the reactionaries and irresponsible demagogues from indulging in false patriotic manifestations and provocations.

Apart from these bitter provocations - the prohibition of the sign of the covenant and the desecration of the sacred place - the Jews had a leader who was recognized as Messiah by the rabbi Aqiba.

Till the spring of 1565, Mary, despite the insults to her religion and the provocations to herself, had remained attached to " the English course " and to the counsels of Moray and Lethington.

Nonetheless, he urged Renamo supporters not to react violently against what he described as " provocations " from the ruling Frelimo Party.

Unfortunately, Venice, for her own safety's sake, insisted on the publication of Wladislaus's antiTurkish alliance; the Porte, well informed of the course of Polish affairs, remained strictly neutral despite the most outrageous provocations; and Wladislaus, bound by his coronation oath not to undertake an offensive war, found himself at the mercy of the diet which, full of consternation and rage, assembled at Warsaw on the 2nd of May 1647.

The MCB urges fellow British Muslims to exercise the utmost restraint in the face of these provocations.

In spite of opportunities and provocations he never lent himself to treason.