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Under it, supposedly, is Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo), an ancient priest discovered--in the movie's prologue--in a compromising position with the Pharaoh's mistress, who kills herself in an act of feminist defiance.
On this spot on the orders of Venizélos, the Greek flag was raised in defiance of talks taking place among the major European powers about the fate of Crete.
Their refusal to support the toppling of the Iraqi regime would oblige Washington either to reconsider or to press ahead unilaterally in defiance of its allies and international law, the paper said.
The main subject was the food war with France, which has refused to import British beef in defiance of a European Union decision that it is now safe and doesn't carry mad cow disease.
Major Horace Bell (1927) states: “In any country in America except the United States, the bold defiance of the power of the government, a half year’s successful resistance, a continuous conflict with the military and civil authorities and the armed populace—the writer repeats that in any other country in America other than the United States—the operations of Joaquín Murrieta would have been dignified by the title of revolution, and the leader with that of rebel chief.