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Bauer and other creationists accuse the evolutionist "elite" of trampling popular values and defying the "American tradition that the people have a right to disagree with the experts."
Meanwhile, the Radical Republicans were impeaching President Johnson, a stubborn Democrat, who was consistently defying their will on various Reconstruction-related measures.
Defying the two-year French occupation, philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte exhorted the German people to assume their rightful destiny as a nation.
For one hour they captivated their large audience of children and adults with stunning acrobatics and death defying spins from the rafters-
North of Santa Maria Novella, spare a glance at the simple, clean-lined architecture of the Stazione Centrale (main railway station), built in 1935 during Mussolini’s heyday but somehow defying the prevailing monumental bombast of the Fascist regime that you can see in the monstrosity of Milan’s central station.