provocation

Navy commander in the region says Iran's war games over the past year amount to what he termed provocation because they come right around the juggler of crucial oil shipping lanes.

CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2007 2007

The rise of this provocation is a hard and impenitent heart; and the ruin of sinners is their walking after such a heart, being led by it.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

Acting Interior Minister Mikhail Mindzayev said no one was hurt by the gunfire, which he called a provocation by Georgian forces.

Times Leader News 2008

When she participates in trying to discredit the flotilla by characterizing it as a "provocation," as this letter does, she helps put its passengers in danger, because when something is characterized as a "provocation," the implication that many will draw is that violent repression of the "provocation" is justified.

Robert Naiman: Rep. Schakowsky, Am I a "Provocation"? Robert Naiman 2011

When she participates in trying to discredit the flotilla by characterizing it as a "provocation," as this letter does, she helps put its passengers in danger, because when something is characterized as a "provocation," the implication that many will draw is that violent repression of the "provocation" is justified.

Robert Naiman: Rep. Schakowsky, Am I a "Provocation"? Robert Naiman 2011

Further, the idea that because of this speech Obama “* will* be ridiculed, caricatured, harassed,” etc. by a conservative movement that has been doing all of those things for more than a year without any such provocation is breathtaking in its dishonesty.

Waldo Jaquith - Will your core beliefs switch with the presidency? 2009

Inherent in that provocation is NOTHING which indicates my own politics … you have got no idea about my opinions on these issues as I have never outlined them (nor will I).

I’m Here For An Argument. No You’re Not! Yes I am! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

And a strike, under certain provocation, may extend as far as did the general strike in Belgium a few years since, when practically the entire wage-earning population stopped work in order to force political concessions from the property-owning classes.

THE CLASS STRUGGLE 2010

Please note that no mention of provocation is mentioned according to the law provocation is not an excuse for assaulting someone.

Think Progress » Steve King Blows Up, Physically Grabs TP Blogger When Asked About His Justification Of IRS Attack 2010

Unless, your only answer to provocation is invasion and/or more of this BS.

Republican calls Holder decision 'bulls**t' 2009