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Example sentences for: defiance

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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.
In an unusually outspoken editorial Monday, the Financial Times of London described the French practice of "mixing sewage into animal feed, in defiance of European law," as disgusting--"[t]hat is the only word for it."
The Los Angeles Times leads with a French-led investment deal, supported by the French government, to develop a giant natural gas field in the Persian Gulf in direct defiance of American economic sanctions against Iran.
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.
Jean-Paul Sartre discovered something similar, although celebrating it rather than deploring it: Essential to the erotic is the body's defiance of design and control.