Events unfolding in Bujumbura have been mirrored on social media as protesters use Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp to coordinate and share scenes of defiance, using hashtags such as #sindumuja, #stopkurunziza and #burundiprotest.
Another has printed on it the figure of a person with hands in the air – the same symbol of peaceful defiance used by Ferguson protesters – onto which a gun-sight has been superimposed directly over the head, above the rubric: "This is my peace sign".
If, however, he chooses to do otherwise, if he persists in his defiance, the use of force may become unavoidable.
And again, the language of war, revenge and defiance is used on most streets in the UK today.
In Pyongyang the men were being made to write endless confessions of guilt, but they were also busy planning their own acts of defiance - using the North Korean propaganda machine to their own advantage.
Australian schools can suspend you for misbehaviour, defiance, swearing, using mobile phones at school, not wearing our uniform, bullying, vandalism, assault, verbal abuse, smoking, drinking, taking or selling drugs, truancy, breaking the law, being charged with a crime outside of school and so on.
Venezuela leads a loose coalition of countries that uses defiance of the United States as an excuse for policies that stunt economic growth and democratic rights.
While China continues to provide crucial economic support and diplomatic cover for Kim's impoverished communist regime, the North Korean leader appears to have used defiance of Beijing to shore up perceptions of his own power and independence of action.
Nearly two dozen states have condoned medical marijuana use in defiance of federal restrictions.
Audio recordings released by Colonel Qaddafi on Sunday night, which expressed defiance, were of limited use in discerning his circumstances.
