TUNIS — At the funeral this month of Chokri Belaid, the murdered secular opposition leader in Tunisia, his widow Basma Khalfaoui, a prominent feminist, stood on the ambulance carrying his casket, her head uncovered, raising her arm to wave a defiant victory sign.
Five-thousand members of the Women's Institute have gathered to mark 100 years of their foundation, and as the defiant "Ladies Toilett" signs stuck on the doors of the gents' affirm, for one day at least, this is decidedly a women's world.
The Telegraph's Charles Spencer mused, "extraordinary how potent - and enduring - cheap music is," delighting in the show's success as "a defiant V-sign flicked in the face of our cultural commissars".
Although the dictator has appeared defiant, there are signs his regime is crumbling under the bombing raids.
The cover features a 25-year-old Cherry wearing a defiant expression, dollar-sign earrings, stacks of gold bracelets, and on her hands the tape more usually used by boxers.
It's hard to say who will feel more aggrieved: leavers who quite reasonably see it as a defiant parting V-sign from the old establishment, a Liam Byrne moment for our times; or remainers who will scratch their heads and wonder how we lost, if everyone in charge was so brilliant as to deserve an honour.
Real art was written on the subway cars, and it was a sign of defiant life, not decay.
Saddam Hussein remains defiant, and there were no signs of any advances on the diplomatic front today.
It is an expectedly defiant stance, but his problems show no signs of abating.
An employee of a gun shop in Burbank, just north of Los Angeles, said many of his customers are bitter and defiant now that the legislation has been signed.
