Scorsese celebrates the cinema as provocation, as revolution.

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Previously, adultery could count as provocation, but under the new loss of control defence, sexual infidelity - "real or imagined" - on the part of the victim does not constitute sufficient grounds for reducing murder to manslaughter, the ministry said.

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This destruction has been ignored by the world, and certainly not seen as a provocation.

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Does the United States view that as a provocation, and how should Israel react?

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She insisted it was not meant as a provocation and stressed that her son had been born on 11 September.

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What it does in the course of telling a seminal story of our time is what contemporary films so rarely do, serve as brilliant provocation.

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At this point, Thomas may see his continued silence on the bench as a provocation to his critics a gesture that says their contempt will not move him.

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Moroz himself described the attack as a "provocation" .

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The committee described this as a deliberate provocation.

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Boris Trajkovski, President of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, appeared on national television on Monday saying recent provocation by groups he described as ethnic Albanians was connected with the tense situation in southern Serbia.

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But as in the New York Times case, provocation comes at a credibility cost.

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The company started in Montreal, in the mid-nineties, as a free magazine with a reputation for provocation.

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But ask sports business consultant Marc Ganis--without provocation--who he sees as college football's single most important driving figure of the past 30 years, and you'll get a quick answer.

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There was no more provocation than that and I tell it as it was told to me by the high sheriff of Sebastian County.

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She added she was as much against Islamic Fundamentalism as the EDL and called on all citizens in Birmingham to respond to any provocation with the spirit of peace and unity.

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If Labour becomes as unpopular mid-term as has every recent government, its huge majority in Parliament will be a ghastly provocation to voters.

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But if provocation includes following the victim and harassing him, then Zimmerman may well qualify as a provocateur.

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