Sentence examples for defiance of building from inspiring English sources

Was the building constructed in defiance of building codes?

Israeli officials say they are simply enforcing the law against an accumulated backlog of offenders who have built in defiance of building restrictions and court orders.

Equally, the fantasy of building the tallest tower ever in an act of total defiance (and totalizing architecture) is not forward-looking.

From beautiful posters to local gatherings, these small moments of defiance are building an unstoppable global wave.

Vallas showed he meant business when he threw out the custodians in defiance of the building trades union.

Indeed, his defiance has been building for some time.

He added that neglect and decay may mean that, despite our ingenuity and defiance of gravity, "the buildings at some point will come back to get us".

"It's about moving the cause of human rights and the Black Liberation Movement along the continuum from Resistance to Chattel Slavery to Abolition to Defiance of Jim Crow to the building of Black Wall Street to the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement to the ‪ ‎BlackLivesMatter‬ movement and into a future of self-determination and empowerment".

July 23 , 1856Ratnagiri, India August 1, 1920 Mumbai, India Bal Gangadhar Tilak, byname Lokamanya (born July 23 , 1856 Ratnagiri [now in Maharashtra state], India died August 1 , 1920 Bombay [now Mumbai]) scholar, mathematician, philosopher, and ardent nationalist who helped lay the foundation for India's independence by building his own defiance of British rule into a national movement.

According to townspeople, local officials had been breaking building codes for years, allowing influential contractors to throw up multistory apartment complexes and offices in defiance of rules limiting the height of buildings and without any of the earthquake strengthening stipulated by Gujarat's laws.

While writing "The Night Stalker" in 1994, he encountered a deliveryman leaving menus in his building in defiance of a no-menu sign.