But when many states threaten each other for incongruent purposes, who is to do the deterring, and in the face of what provocation? |
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Workers responded to the provocation by picketing the factory and over 150 barricading themselves inside a canteen. |
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Several investigators have carried out inhalation provocation tests using dropping extracts or bird sera. |
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Baseline sensitivity to grass pollen as measured by the conjunctival provocation test did not differ. |
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The clouds were omnipresent, threatening to pour down some terrible precipitation at the slightest provocation. |
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When this aspect is active by transit, you may be easily irritated and argue at the slightest provocation. |
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It was very hurtful because he was someone I genuinely cared for and was trying to help and he had punched me with no provocation. |
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British governments maintained their phlegmatic calm and resisted provocation. |
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They have at times had to withstand considerable provocation from intransigent bigots on the extreme wing of unionism. |
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We can't have him flying off the handle at the slightest provocation but we also need a President who is alert mentally. |
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Lastly, there is Pakistan's loudly proclaimed intention of using nuclear weapons at the slightest provocation. |
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The judge also left provocation to the jury, though the defence did not request this. |
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Allan Compton, mitigating, said Carter did not intend using the knife but lost his temper and snapped under provocation. |
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Still, other than the song I feel restless, irritated, lost and ready to snap at the slightest provocation. |
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Revenge is one of those movie vehicles that can take a movie down easy street with little provocation. |
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So far, we have encountered only two patients who have HCM and vasospastic angina with total occlusion during the acetylcholine provocation test. |
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To the hard-eyed realists of New Delhi, this book will only be a minor provocation from an old friend of India who has now gone slightly gaga. |
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Its volcanic composition makes the rock loose and friable, and likely to pull away in your hand at the slightest provocation. |
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Those parties lose nothing if there is an election so can demand greater concessions and throw tantrums with much less provocation. |
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The brutal and inhuman methods of these organizations bespeak not liberation, but provocation. |
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Expect lots of rude jokes, political provocation, and more than a few references that would offend if they weren't so funny. |
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Given the present degraded state of the film industry, its subject matter, this is nearly a provocation. |
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Police described it as a minor physical assault on a juvenile, apparently after some provocation. |
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The decision of city authorities to grant the neo-Nazis permission to march in North Toledo was a clear provocation. |
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Are you saying that provocation is engaged wherever there is a loss of self-control? |
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If a man shoots another in self-defence, or under gross provocation, the death is not caused by accident. |
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And what of working with Stone himself, the enfant terrible who seems to thrive on provocation? |
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Their methods of cover-up and provocation indicate a consciousness of guilt and a fear of exposure. |
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The original trial judge made allowance for provocation when he sentenced them, but the appeal court said it was not enough. |
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Nothing, of course, justifies physical attacks on dissenters, but one does wonder whether some provocation was not involved. |
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The troupe aims at provocation and messages which make the audience, and themselves, really think. |
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Much of this is eminently disputable, yet the result is constructive stimulation rather than mere provocation. |
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She fixes me with a look, a wonderful mixture of playfulness and provocation. |
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This method for measuring the perception of respiratory sensation may be a viable alternative to the bronchial provocation test. |
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I can't remember the last time I lost my rag with anyone without a high degree of provocation or angst being involved. |
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He has kept remarkably calm, refusing to lose his cool in the face of constant provocation. |
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The CIM has deplored the incident as an uncalled for provocation by the miscreants. |
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If we could offer a tip it would be to never say tally-ho, whatever the provocation. |
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Perhaps we should invite those who criticise and abuse with little provocation? |
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One of the soldiers responsible for this act of blatant provocation explained the rationale. |
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This is a time for cool heads and reasoned arguments, not for bluster and provocation. |
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Moore and Girling denied murder, but pleaded guilty to manslaughter under provocation. |
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Whatever the provocation, I have to say that it is a pretty low-down dirty thing to rat on someone for surfing-at-work to their employer. |
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The music was what counted but the cockiness, the combination of arrogance and provocation, the sheer effrontery was thrilling to witness. |
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What, then, was the provocation by the Hindus in the case of the Sabarmati Express? |
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While woodchucks tend to be pretty silent, their cousins are quite vocal and emit loud piercing whistles or chirps at the slightest provocation. |
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A polite tongue provided a shield of tactful silence and banal pleasantries that staved off needless provocation and harm. |
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It broke under the slightest provocation from my fork and combined with the gravy and optional mint sauce, left a satisfying taste in the mouth. |
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Alternatively the defence say she may have acted under provocation of a type which reduces murder to manslaughter in law. |
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Much more of this monkey business and every riot in every corner of a foreign land will be blamed on provocation by racist locals. |
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In some cases defendants run the two qualified defences of provocation and diminished responsibility in tandem. |
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Little sister flushed, and her eyes glittered angrily, but she said nothing, refusing to jettison the trip on such petty provocation. |
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At least their singer knew that the days of Malcolm McLaren's situationist media provocation were well and truly over. |
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D was convicted of murder having raised both the defences of provocation and diminished responsibility. |
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The review is there as a guideline, as an incitement, or perhaps at times merely a provocation. |
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Any excessive display could be construed as the sin of pride and any unnecessary revealing or emphasizing of the body could be deemed a provocation to immoral behaviour. |
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In such a case there is simply no triable issue of provocation. |
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People are expected to control themselves even in the face of provocation. |
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When two men become involved in a brawl and start trading blows and punches and kicks and so forth, how does the law of provocation relate to that circumstance? |
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Far from a smutty provocation, the painting is unexpectedly lyrical. |
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All of this adds to the danger of an uncontrolled slide into political adventurism, military provocation and war between the two nuclear-armed powers. |
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The provocation is likely to end any hesitation in Britain over launching strikes against ISIS in Iraq. |
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I'd like to think I've answered those critics who had lambasted me for my disciplinary problems and, under some provocation at times this summer, I've held my composure. |
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The emotions of Democrats are on a tripwire, ready to react at the slightest provocation. |
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I told him to keep his shirt on, no matter what the provocation. |
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Efficacy was assessed with a nasal provocation test using the allergen at a concentration previously demonstrated to elicit symptoms in each patient. |
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It's hard to know where provocation ends and camp self-parody begins. |
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And then he went on a tear in early 2013, creating one provocation after another, seemingly every day for more than two months. |
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And in the bulk of trials where the provocation defence was run, are we talking about some kind of relationship intimacy between the victim and the accused? |
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After a year of provocation, Harry Reid has finally pulled the trigger on the nuclear option. |
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It is possible that there was a provocation in order to force Ukrainians to open fire. |
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But an unnamed friend of the teenager said the youngster was joking and talking with a soldier guarding the barracks when the soldier opened fire without provocation. |
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And what you know can just as well be a source of sympathy as well as a provocation to unmasking. |
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From an evolutionary perspective, aggression is a response to a potential threat or provocation across a variety of species and seems to be an inborn response tendency. |
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The twenthysomethings in the audience cheered at all the nonsensical provocation. |
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Thus the Law, even in its ineffaceability, is retraced to a divine act of will and provided with the task of the recognition of sin and the provocation of transgression. |
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Mabanckou pairs the porcupine with a Congolese boy, who attacks and kills neighbors and strangers with little provocation. |
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It was a dignified response in the face of hideous provocation. |
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I could sense there were narcs in the cinema, but I felt safe with my attorney close by, ready to swing his gorilla fists into action at the slightest provocation. |
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To that period belonged the provocation for my play The beatification of Area Boy. |
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Beholden to a base that, like a capricious autocrat, will turn against them at the slightest provocation. |
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The provocation of a severe asthma attack after a cold is a well-known and well-traveled path to serious illness. |
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None were killed and Ukraine called the incident an attempt at a provocation. |
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This lack of rest has caused a radical shift in my personality, making me cranky, irritable, and prone to curse loudly at the slightest provocation. |
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This whole dynamic, in which the failed father becomes the outraged victim of a morally incomprehensible world, is clearly meant as a teasing provocation of its audience's cultural sensitivities. |
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The initial French provocation, a direct takeover of Morocco in violation of recent treaties, was answered by German gunboat diplomacy to back its demand for compensation. |
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It is difficult to behave with equanimity under such provocation. |
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The initial burden was on the defence to raise sufficient evidence of provocation. |
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Under normal circumstances, the response to the provocation had to be almost immediate retaliation. |
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But the Russian sabotage and provocation operations currently underway? |
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This continual cycle of provocation and retaliation makes it extremely difficult to end the feud peacefully. |
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Octavian sent only a tenth of those promised, however, which Antony viewed as an intentional provocation. |
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Further the defence was not defeated by the fact that the defendant induced the provocation. |
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A delay between the act of provocation and the killing did not always defeat the defence, but often would. |
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Thus, the Commission recommends a redefinition of provocation to cover situations where a person acts lethally out of fear. |
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Further, that any characteristic of the accused could be included which the jury considered may affect the gravity of the provocation. |
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The same result would have been inevitable if the provocation direction had been on the basis of Holley. |
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Two, was Sylvia's confession of the grave provocation for Nanavati, or any specific incident in Ahuja's bedroom or both. |
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Three, the judge wrongly told the jury that the provocation can also come from a third person. |
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We well know that the provocation to lawlessness often starts in Whitehall. |
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Marko defies dominant depictions of women by replacing the elements of provocation with ferocity and urban trendiness. |
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Patient refused elective percutaneous coronary intervention and ergonovine or acetylcholine provocation test for coronary vasospasm. |
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Coronary vasospasm was induced by a provocation test with ergonovine, and only total or subtotal occlusion was considered positive. |
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When it's time to check for provocation ask the patient about what makes their chief complaint better or worse. |
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When marchers defied the ban, RUC officers surrounded the marchers and beat them indiscriminately and without provocation. |
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Without apparent provocation, she began screaming at him, before suddenly becoming silent and staring into space. |
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I was passing the corner of Second and Main when, without provocation of any sort on my part, I was suddenly assaulted by two hoodla. |
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The politicians would cry wolf at the slightest provocation so when the real threat appeared no one believed them. |
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In addition to good intention, provocation, defeasibility, and accident are three other tactics that are used to evade responsibility. |
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For Edward, a further provocation came from Llywelyn's planned marriage to Eleanor, daughter of Simon de Montfort. |
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The Analytical Society had initially been no more than an undergraduate provocation. |
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The appellant argued that instead of considering the final provocation, the jury should have considered the events over the years leading up to the killing. |
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Although wolves may react aggressively under provocation, such attacks are mostly limited to quick bites on extremities, and the attacks are not pressed. |
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In most cases, the provocation must induce rage or anger in the defendant, although some cases have held that fright, terror, or desperation will suffice. |
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Assessments included vestibular tests, audiometry, orthostatic hypotension testing, and a hyperventilation provocation test in the pulmonary function laboratory. |
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The Act provided that provocation could be by anything done or said without it having to be an illegal act and the provoker and the deceased could be a third parties. |
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You've been the invoker of great stories, the provocation for much laughter, and the needed companion when I just don't know what to do with the extra money in my pockets. |
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