Sentence examples for at defiance from inspiring English sources

It receives the Auglaize River, its chief tributary, at Defiance.

Whichever the case, his and Saddam's efforts at defiance and bluster turned out to be a miscalculation of historic proportions.

Even Niese, who at Defiance High in Ohio set a school record with 22 goals as a junior left wing on the varsity soccer team, said he did not consider himself a big fan.

Sounding personally affronted, General Trimble wrote in his report: "It was with extreme mortification that, in reporting to General A. P. Hill about 10 o'clock, I witnessed an indiscriminate plunder of the public stores, cars, and sutler's houses by the army which had just arrived, in which General Hill's division was conspicuous, setting at defiance the guards I had placed over the stores".

Attempts at defiance have been abundant in the recent history of the Arabs, many of them in Palestine, but unlike those, the Tunisian example was successful: it widened people's imagination, changed their perception, increased their self-confidence and showed them how fragile their tyrants were.

The singer made a stab at defiance, climbing on top of a car in front of crowds of fans and insisting on his innocence, but cut a pathetic figure, addicted to morphine and the painkiller Demerol and weighing only eight and a half stone.

At a "Defiance" panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday, Syfy unleashed a lengthy trailer with lots of clues about where the second season of the drama is headed; HuffPost TV can exclusively share the "Defiance" Comic-Con trailer with fans.

The okami reacted with fury at such defiance.

Terrorism is, in the first instance, aimed at showing defiance, exacting revenge and demonstrating strength.

And its confidence – or at least defiance – is returning as a result.

Family embarrassment at his defiance of aristocratic tradition can be inferred from the first biography, written by Nelly de Vogüé in 1949 under the pen-name Pierre Chevrier.