With North Korea, the provocations continue to come thick and fast.

In fact, such provocations have often preceded visits to India by Chinese leaders.

The bodybuilder Gabriel Campos kissing the horse of an officer, as part of his provocations.

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

Following this spring s round of North Korean provocations, Xi appears to have concluded that enough is enough.

With Chinese provocations on the rise, US President Barack Obama, Abe s host, appealed for calm and restraint on both sides.

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.

A volunteer defender of protest grounds in Kyiv who initiated the creation of human chain between the protesters and the police to prevent provocations and violence.

A sensible way forward would begin with everyone staying calm about China s external provocations and internal nationalist drumbeating.

In Paris, Charlie Hebdo has given form to the spirit of democratic freedom the ability to write, draw, and publish anything even extreme (and at times vulgar) provocations.

A further provocation came in a case brought by Macduff, son of Malcolm, Earl of Fife, in which Edward demanded that Balliol appear in person before the English Parliament to answer the charges.

War and upheaval After a series of perceived provocations from Prussia, culminating in the offer of the Spanish crown to the Prussian Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern, the French emperor Napoleon III declared war on 15 July 1870.

Twitter hashtags freekg (the major hashtag of the event), bishkek, kyrgyzstan and talas, although filled with re tweets and various provocations, made it possible for English speaking audience to follow the events as well.

Certainly in defense and foreign policy, a cool and measured response to the extreme provocations that often come with that territory is what the world wants, and needs, from the leader of its reigning superpower.

Cicero also defended Octavian against Antony's taunts about Octavian's lack of noble lineage and aping of Julius Caesar's name he stated we have no more brilliant example of traditional piety among our youth.

For locals, the latest taunts and insults aimed at protesters by Defense Bureau officers underline how Okinawans often perceive themselves as being treated as second class citizens, and not truly Japanese.

Moreover, if this spring s sharp rhetoric from the Kim regime is followed by provocations against South Korea like those that occurred in 2010, South Korea could respond forcefully, and China might be drawn in.

Ishihara, who has since resigned from office to launch a new political party, is well known for nationalist provocation, and Noda feared that he would try to occupy the islands or find other ways to use them to provoke China and whip up popular support in Japan.

This experimentation happens daily, to a lesser extent, with identifications, arrests, or provocations, but also takes place in a larger scale such as the police operations carried out in August in which armored vehicles were used in sweeps, something unheard of in Portugal.

Moreover, while Iranian provocations that clearly reveal the regime s intentions to develop a nuclear weapons capability might help build support for American military action, it is far from certain that Europeans, or others, would rush to join another US led coalition of the willing.

After an eventful first half which ended with São Paulo leading 2 0, a fight broke out between the players after alleged provocations from the Argentinian side. The fight spilled into the changing rooms, where Tigre players and their coaches claim to have suffered aggression from the Military Police and the Brazilian team's security staff.