Sentence examples for Deliberate defiance from inspiring English sources

"His refusal to attend is the result of a willful and deliberate defiance," Mr. Morrison said.

The judge said his "pattern of behaviour constituted deliberate defiance of the undertakings, in my view".

So their current attachment to it smacks more of nostalgia and deliberate defiance of black feelings than the inescapable clutches of history.

The fashion show, too, was something else, devised extravagantly in deliberate defiance of the formal lines and stiff styles of the haute couture of the day.

A dissenting opinion by Justice Hugo Black said that Mr. Feiner's arrest resulted from his "deliberate defiance" of an arbitrary command and nothing else.

She pointed out that U.N.-run shelters are protected by the Geneva Conventions, and said that the I.D.F.'s repeated strikes on civilian targets amounted to "deliberate defiance of obligations that international law imposes on Israel".

Nimr's merciless dispatch will thus be seen as deliberate Saudi defiance of western opinion and international human rights concerns and, possibly, as a direct challenge to Tehran.

Green's father supported Arsenal but she was always a Tottenham fan: "It wasn't a deliberate act of defiance.

What struck me was that he seemed to assume that all of the breaches of the uniform rule were deliberate acts of defiance.

Binyamin Netanyahu's government was criticised at home and abroad when the announcement by a planning body was made during a visit by Joe Biden, the US vice-president, which made it look like a deliberate act of defiance.

The wearing of the veil by some Muslim women is a deliberate act of defiance by them to live separate lives from the rest of society by using the intellectually bankrupt argument that it is their religious and human right to do so.