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Example sentences for: defiance

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France's most influential newspaper, Le Monde, launched a ferocious attack Thursday against Newt Gingrich for sabotaging the Middle East peace process in defiance of his own country's foreign policy.
In the revolutionary age of free jazz, with its joyful defiance of form and radical embrace of pure sound, the Davis quintet seemed just a bit too polished.
To hold one's fist stiffly in the air in a gesture of ridiculous defiance while the bass amplifier thundered and the guitar shrieked and our man on tenor sax honked deliriously, and to see a barroom audience respond with shouts and their own idiotic fists in the beery air--that was to laugh.
As Bill Clinton ratchets up the pressure on Baghdad, Saddam will inevitably bellow Nasserite defiance.
The NYT emphasizes the defiance of the second round.