Sentence examples for defiant arguments from inspiring English sources

Inside his camp, however, there were defiant arguments that he outperformed Labour nationally - and that he was felled by suburban small-mindedness and the over-55s.

An even more defiant argument has been that the online community will anyway invent ways to circumvent the proposed bill.

When Mr. al-'Owhali's lawyers present his case to the jury, they are likely to make the defiant argument that their client was a devout Muslim who believed the United States Embassies in East Africa were legitimate military targets in what he considered to be an ongoing war with the United States.

Ever malleable, the song in Kesha's hands seemed less about the end of a romance than a defiant argument for creative freedom. .

It was this argument Henry took to Pope Clement VII in 1527 in the hope of having his marriage to Catherine annulled, forgoing at least one less openly defiant line of attack.

A tour de force of multiple narratives, it is not exactly a masterpiece of English style, but a great fictional rooming-house with many inhabitants, heartbreaks and arguments – a defiant and ambitious work that remade many readers' idea of fiction and its uses.

It also serves to undermine arguments of defiant African member states that have been bucking ICC rulings in protest of its alleged anti-African bias.

And this is leaving unspoken the argument regarding the defiant, Machiavellian amorality behind certain kinds of realism, and the moral calibre of the actions it might recommend on this basis.

One evening at Neverland, Presley confronted the pop star on the issue and was met with a defiant Jackson, resulting in another argument.

In an interview with the Observer, a defiant Khan insisted there was no way he would be "knocked off course" by the antisemitism arguments raging within Labour.

Miss Brodie's essential air of defiant superiority seems merely provisional, which is all too evident when she loses her cool in argument with other adults.