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31. He was convicted of the lesser charge by a jury, with the addition that the assault had taken place under provocation.

32. Needless loss of life resulted from a policy that emphasized backing away from provocation and discouraging self-defense.

33. Lisbie had lost some weight over the last week, and kept on bursting into tears without any apparent provocation.

34. The King is aggressive, unpredictable, and can strike without provocation.

35. But they never lost their capacity for diplomacy no matter what the provocation.

36. Juries have long stretched notions of self-defense or extended implicit clemency to recognize mitigating factors such as provocation and histories of abuse.

37. Extra police were called to quell the disturbance when, without provocation, Williamson punched Mr Coulthard.

38. Lesser butlers will abandon their professional being for the private one at the least provocation.

39. The national speed limit outlasted its provocation by a decade, one of the arguments for retiring it.

40. The second question, the proper ambit of the provocation defence, is more troublesome.

41. Defences such as duress or provocation may be analysed in the expectation of laying bare the rules which apply.

42. It is an act of explicit challenge to Rome, an act of deliberate, militant provocation.

43. From whichever side the provocation came, it is certain that Bruce stabbed his rival before the altar.

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44. A positive provocation test was documented if upper abdominal pain was present with or without nausea after introduction of duodenal contents.

45. Demonstrate provocation test where clients deliberately over-breath - discuss catastrophic misinterpretation of symptoms - breathing exercises.

46. Second, the jury must decide whether the provocation was enough to make a reasonable man do as D did.

47. He knew that Sharpe's insults were more than mere anger, but a deliberate provocation to a duel.

48. There was also no relation between the results of the provocation test and the number and nature of symptoms.

49. I shall recommend ways of keeping cool in the face of severe provocation.

50. Thus, if the mandatory penalty were abolished, it would be sufficient to take account of provocation when sentencing for murder.

51. It is often also the retaliation, not the provocation, that receives the punishment and the attention.

52. Quite naturally, this refuge for runaways was a provocation as well as a threat to southern slave interests.

53. But much of it was due to provocation from the students whose ranks had been infiltrated by revolutionaries seeking a violent reaction.

54. We are virtually certain that this incident was a deliberate provocation.

55. Provocation creates an unstable idea so that we may move on from it to a new idea.

56. Hyde's defence counsel has told Northampton Crown court that provocation would be an issue in the trial.

57. The new sequence begins with a provocation which, if well directed(Sentencedict.com), generates a new offence from the provoked teacher.

58. Five out of 10 patients had a positive result on provocation with their duodenal aspirate, developing epigastric pain.

59. Murder, rape and other hate crimes could be a mere provocation away.

60. He's not saying we should explode on the slightest provocation.