Sentence examples for explicit defiance from inspiring English sources

He lashes out against secularists and trumpets his and Callista's Roman Catholicism, though the two of them lived for six years in explicit defiance of its tenets.

But where IS is unique is its regurgitation of its marauded seed money into global enterprise, having it both ways in explicit defiance, with a marketing plan and tightly managed budget to boot.

If AB 1888 passes and is signed into law, might California start a trend to reverse the "religious liberty" excuse to discriminate against LGBT people, often in explicit defiance of the federal, state and local secular laws by which America is governed?

The court should accept Mr. Wilson's case for review and end Texas's illegal defiance of its explicit holding that the death penalty for the mentally retarded is unconstitutional.

Nelson also detached Foudroyant and Alexander from the blockade, again in defiance of Keith's explicit orders, to assist the Neapolitan royal family in their passage to Livorno.

Solomon never tries to draw explicit lessons from the families he talks to, and in defiance of his surname he continually stops short of judgment.

It was defiance for defiance's sake.

Stage 2: defiance.