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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.
The NYT emphasizes the defiance of the second round.
New York's state supreme court denied a woman the right to implant her frozen embryos in defiance of a contract she had signed with her then-husband.
Profanity can be an act of religious defiance, but it doesn't have to be.
25 billion to Holocaust survivors and relatives to compensate for the Nazi victims' deposits they held onto after World War II, a story that also gets front space at USAT and the NYT . The move came just weeks after the Swiss government had declared it would pay no more than half that sum, but also, the LAT points out, after several state and local governments, in defiance of the Clinton administration position, said they would begin leveling sanctions against the banks.