Sentence examples for defiance both from inspiring English sources

Yet pension reform will prompt defiance, both on the street and from the opposition.

There were two especially revealing examples of Obama's defiance, both of them unscripted.

At the Kitchen, the mythical leader is feminine, in defiance both of the fundamentalist Iranian clerics' relegation of women to the voluminous chador and Western stereotypes in which women's roles are the emblems of Islam's otherness.

"TAXI!" he insisted, in satisfactory defiance of both police and wife.

However, the defiance of both groups is the latest evidence of the depth of division in the Conservative Party and of the prime minister's faltering authority.

Ever since the raids stopped, Mr. Hussein's deputies have responded with defiance, declaring both military and moral victory and vowing never to resume cooperation with United Nations inspections.

There even Ken Livingstone had to sack him in 1985 in a showdown over his unwillingness to set a budget, in defiance of both Thatcher and the law.

But by Monday – in clear defiance of both national and international law – he was on a private jet back headed for Sudan's capital, Khartoum.

Its concrete forms, full of ramped spaces and oblique angles, come across as acts of defiance, against both the excesses of global consumer culture and the architects who are hired to dress it up.

The duet's sexual crescendo, so titillatingly elongated and then consummated in the tidal music, becomes Billy and Julie's thrilling defiance of both their own sense of defeat and their community's Puritan propriety.

A big, new military operation against Kurdish strongholds, in defiance of both Russia and the US, would be a sign of Erdoğan's desperation, marking a potentially catastrophic spreading of the Syrian conflict.