Where Thomas Jefferson spent much of his life defying power, Washington imagined using power to improve transportation, encourage education, develop commerce, establish federal authority and unite the diverse regions of the sprawling Republic into an imposing whole that transcended the sum of its parts.
In Asia, America will find it harder to deter China's assertiveness in the South China Sea, which is deliberately intended to display China's growing ability to defy U.S. power in the maritime domain, where it was once strongest.
His core belief was that nobody could defy the power of the state, and that power was embodied by the man at the top — himself.
The article continued: "It would be a mistake to defy the power of history with the illusion that the powerful can forge deals and plan the future away from the peoples whose divisions and lack of experience with democracy enabled local, regional and international forces to abuse them.
Yet, over the summer, she went out once or twice a week to defy the power of the state.
"Sexual violence in conflict involves the deliberate targeting of women and children and men, in ways that often simply defy the power of description".
A village on the western fringes of Hampshire is well on the way to becoming the first in England to defy the power of the supermarkets by achieving communal self-sufficiency in food.
Many of the murders have resulted from turf wars between rival cartels, but the drug lords have also carried out terrorist attacks of a type little known here previously, seemingly intended to defy the power of the Mexican state head-on.
Mohammed Aldhouri: The American policy vis-à-vis Iraq stems from three roots: the oppression of Palestinians, controlling the flow of oil, and the foreign policy of the Iraqi government who dare to defy the power of America.
"Some of us will want to defy the power of the devil and die as martyrs, if need be, in the only cause that gives us a chance to fight for something bigger than ourselves".
