Sentence examples for defiance around from inspiring English sources

For a group which is supposed to be taking a defiant stand against the "Islamization" of Europe, there was a distinct lack of defiance around their table.

For a group which is supposed to be taking a defiant stand against the "Islamisation" of Europe, there was a distinct lack of defiance around their table.

Myanmar's normally quiescent Buddhist monks emerge as the symbolic and strategic linchpin of anti-government activity, and images of their defiance spread around the world in spite of the government's ban on foreign journalists.

But there were no policy prescriptions for campaign finance reform, constitutional amendments, or even the defiance to work around Congress that characterised last year's address when Obama promised executive action in place of stalled legislation.

The film is a series of elegant visual jokes, interrupted by two elaborate fantasies of vengeance and defiance, and organized around the idea that the modern Middle East is, in unexpected and petty ways as well as the large ones we all know about, a land of bad neighbors (A. O. Scott).

The Allies were outflanked by the Germans, and by 27 April they were driven off the Greek mainland, with a final act of defiance being made around Porto Rafti.

Yet his legacy centres not around his defiance and fiery oratory, but his intellectual evolution.

But he knows that filing an appeal, even one that grasps at legal straws, creates an aura of legality around his defiance and delay.

Since Fela's death in 1997, Afrobeat's combination of simmering jams and smoldering defiance has found footholds around the world, and "Red Hot + Riot!" -- with appearances by D'Angelo, Macy Gray, Meshell Ndegeocello, Jorge Ben, Baaba Maal, Roy Hargrove and members of Blackalicious, along with Fela's son Femi Kuti -- envisions a new, principled African-diaspora coalition.

My kindergartner, who had planned on spending the afternoon watching "Winx Club," began stomping around in defiance.

Organizers say they will march to the Colosseum and form a ring around it in defiance of the city, which refused to approve the streets around it as part of the parade route.