It took 12 months and nine court hearings, from the time our child defied the court order, for the court to come to its own conclusion that it could not force familial relationships.
In the end, it was our child who defied the authority of the court.
Hickox defied the order and went for a bike ride, later challenging the restrictions in court and winning permission to move freely while regularly monitoring her temperature.
Of the Chinese government's decision to put down the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in 1989, he said: "There was a crisis after a month in which the civil authorities had been defied.
The first minister restated her commitment to the European convention of human rights, saying that it "defied belief" for any government to move away from it, and called for the UK to do more to help refugees in the Mediterranean.
By denying Djokovic victory, Wawrinka defied all predictions and stopped the Serb's grand slam ambitions in their tracks.
He recounts joining a reprisal party in the mid-1860s, while mayor, for the killers of a shepherd: "They got on top of a big mound & defied us & smacked their buttocks at us & hurled large stones down on us, & hid themselves behind large trees and huge rocks but some of them paid dearly for their bravado.
She had defied a masked man who said he was from the new IRA terror group when he boarded the bus at about 6.15pm on Wednesday.
At the weekend more than 100 women openly defied the law in Northern Ireland when they revealed in the Observer that they had used abortion pills bought from pro-choice charities over the internet.
When most leaders in the Democratic and Republican parties were saying that we should close our border to children fleeing violence in Central America, he defied them and said that we could not send children 'back to certain death'.
This "casino" defied any evocation of poker machines, blackjack or roulette.
