Sentence examples for defiant determination from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, the North Korean leadership's defiant determination to develop nuclear weapons seems to have protected it from intervention.

It's from a kind of defiant determination "to grab life by the ankles and scoff in its face" that she decides to make her fortune as an Antwerp "window girl," enticing men into her booth for paid sex.

Female solidarity, the endurance and resilience of women, is where the song draws its core message; a defiant determination to stand tough together and goof around even when it hurts.

Markets may have plummeted after the New York Stock Exchange reopened on Monday -- and throughout the week -- but denizens of Wall Street voiced a defiant determination to keep on doing what they had done before, only more successfully.

What love has to do with it is hard to say, but what clearly animates the show is a cheerfully defiant determination to pursue interests and pleasures without regard for traditional strictures of feminine propriety.

Briefly usurped by the exotically named Elspeth Champcommunal, Todd was reinstated in 1922, with a staff of 14 and a defiant determination to continue pushing a literary bent – Noël Coward, Vita Sackville-West and Evelyn Waugh all got their first Vogue bylines under her editorship, while Virginia Woolf became a regular contributor.

Speaking in Washington, the chancellor adopted a defiant tone, signalling his determination to face down calls from the IMF to soften his deficit reduction strategy and insisting that his approach to putting the public finances in order was both "credible and flexible".

And after a few weeks of freaking out they are getting to work with new defiant energy and a grim determination.

Quite a number of Americans yesterday expressed an almost defiant life-will-go-on determination that seemed both admirably American and somehow resistant to the full meaning of Sept. 11.

The City captain and centre-back later posted a defiant message on Facebook, voicing his determination to be the world's best defender and declaring, paradoxically, that "my body feels invincible" only to admit he keeps breaking down.

He was determined and defiant.