Sentence examples for defied authority from inspiring English sources

Exhibiting the chutzpah familiar to Valentine's managerial style decades later, he found remedies in uncommon methods and defied authority.

Was she being the faithful daughter, or the girl who defied authority and was sentenced to be buried alive?

The center of that unrest was in the desert region of Anbar, a cradle of Sunni discontent where swaggering tribesmen defied authority even under Saddam Hussein.

It isn't as if firefighters never drank, fought or defied authority, said Terry Golway, who wrote a history of the department, "So Others Might Live" (Basic Books).

THE MANZANAR FISHING CLUB How a group of Japanese-Americans detained at the Manzanar internment camp in California during World War II defied authority and sneaked out to go fishing, described in a documentary by Cory Shiozaki and Richard Imamura.

If Zeus has the upper hand in Aeschylus' "Prometheus Bound," it is a sure bet that Prometheus, the Olympian rebel who defied authority and saved the human race, will have the last laugh.

These were just estimates; the scale of the destruction defied authorities' ability to account for the dead.

Abu Rumaysah, who defied authorities to leave the UK earlier this year, posted the photograph with the hashtag #GenerationKhilafah, meaning those who live under the self-declared caliphate.

It's been 25 years since students in China defied authorities and gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square to call for democratic reform of their government.

Mr. Wolff never stopped defying authority.

What impels people to defy authority and convention?