Neither would mine, without serious provocation.

Greylock had never seen his old teacher's composure break before, even in the face of his most obnoxious student's most serious provocations.

If the Colombian liberals fired on the trains, the Navy would consider this serious enough provocation to reply in force.

China viewed the attack on the Khmer Rouge as a serious provocation.

The guerrilla raids were viewed nonetheless as the most serious provocation in the rebel uprising since both sides agreed to a cease-fire last January.

As a matter of fact, this is serious provocation on part of Russia, besides this they can also be launched the opposite direction.

The most serious provocations happened when three Macedonian police officers were killed in an ambush by ethnic Albanian gunmen on 12 November 2001.

Mr. Aliyev, who succeeded his father as president in 2003, called the killing a "serious provocation against the state" and said an investigation was under way.

After the event, President Aliyev announced that it was a serious provocation against the state, and accused the perpetrators of damaging Azerbaijan's good reputation.

It would take a much more serious provocation, believe me.