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Then the Serbs, in defiance of a cease-fire and NATO and U.S. warnings, shelled the area around the massacre site.
After the assembly passed orders to prevent the Congress from making new laws, the Congress attempted yesterday to enter the locked Capitol building in defiance of the order.
I missed two classic spoonerisms in XVIII, 4: the one that spells the difference between a game cock and a shysters lawyer (a game cock clucks defiance), and the difference between a lady in the bath and a lady in the church (the latter has a hope in her soul).
The NYT emphasizes the defiance of the second round.
If, on the other hand, I turn round and do it to you, it probably means that I am turning in heroic defiance, wheeling in righteous indignation, turning on my tormentors.