Sentence examples for Open defiance from inspiring English sources

Open defiance of the authorities and calls for President Hosni Mubarak to stand down forced a pledge from him to step aside at elections due later this year.

But here there isn't usually such open defiance of courts.

Now they stand in open defiance of it.

In Alabama, Turnage met his oppressors with open defiance.

Never before had Damascus faced such open defiance.

He found the paper in "open defiance of the law".

It was not an act of open defiance.

Poachers are heavily armed, and frequently operate in open defiance of state efforts to constrain them.

But Mr. Trump is certain to react strongly to the open defiance to his authority.

Norway's open defiance of the 1986 international whaling ban enrages environmentalists.

Most of his lines fall somewhere between these two extremes of strict adherence to and open defiance of the meter.