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Example sentences for: defiant

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The tobacco stance became official with a speech against the tough and expensive Senate bill by the RJR CEO, Steven Goldstone, described by the papers as "aggressive" and "defiant."
While Los Angeles aims an occasional rhetorical jab at the left, Rieff's second book on Miami, The Exile , was an act of defiant apostasy, sympathetic to the Cuban émigrés' sufferings and aspirations, and contemptuous of the Castro regime.
The artist, looking either terrified or defiant, is peeling back a bandage to reveal the scars left by bullets from would-be assassin Valerie Solanas' gun.
But Estonia has been increasingly defiant: It switched official allegiance from the Russian to the Greek Orthodox Church, criticized Russia's war in Chechnya, and imposed requirements that make it difficult for its Russian-speaking minority to become citizens.
Susan McDougal's defiant appearance in leg irons moves some pundits to sympathy.