Generals in Burkina Faso last year chased away a president who tried to cling to power in defiance of term limits.
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.
"Who knows?" Wherever Rory Shayne is today, he bears the scars of a life lived in defiance of the brutal limits imposed on him from day one.
Perhaps as much as his oft-quoted "15 minutes of fame" and classic colorful stencils that defined Pop Art, Warhol's enduring contribution to our multimedia culture today is his defiance of labels or limits to his artwork.
For months, the president, Abdoulaye Wade, who has been in office since 2000, had appeared to be going the route of his regional peers in proclaiming his invincibility and seeking a third term in defiance of a constitutional limit of two.
"It would be unwise to reveal our tactics in advance," Bustinduy told me, but he was clear the baseline for any left-left coalition in Spain would have to be in spectacular defiance of Europe's deficit limits.
The front-runner, Rudy Giuliani, boasts a proven record in extralegal executive power grabs, Musharraf-style: After 9/11 he tried to mount a coup, floating the idea that he stay on as mayor in defiance of New York's term-limits law.
Reporting from New York -- Anthony Shadid, a journalist who gave voice to those muffled by the turmoil around them — from Iraqi families enveloped in civil war to young Libyans spurred to take up arms against a dictator — died while doing just that: reporting from Syria in defiance of official attempts to limit media coverage of the bloodshed there.
Some American officials acknowledged the administration's concern about Mr. Karzai's seeming defiance of anticorruption inquiries, but also the limits to what the United States can do.
Clint Murchison Sr., another Athens native, built his fortune partly by running shipments of so-called hot oil in defiance of state and federal laws mandating production limits, Mr. Burrough says.
