Sentence examples for express defiance from inspiring English sources

This summer's sham negotiations have caused many Europeans to retreat into nationalism and express defiance towards international institutions.

Hundreds gathered in Trafalgar Square to honour the victims of the massacre and express defiance against the killers who visited terror and grief on Paris.

And when Nux wishes to express defiance or euphoria, he sprays his mouth with silver-grey paint, to make his face look even more like a skull.

People at the ABC News division waited to see whether he would express defiance against what is widely considered the most provocative corporate move against a senior broadcast news figure in memory.

In a 2010 piece in the New York Review of Books, Lilla argued that Tea Party supporters "have no constructive political agenda...the movement only exists to express defiance against a phantom threat behind a real economic and political crisis".

But the movement only exists to express defiance against a phantom threat behind a real economic and political crisis, and to remind those in power that they are there for one thing only: to protect our divine right to do whatever we damn well please.

It expresses defiance and disrespect, not out-and-out hatred.

Indeed, most expressed defiance or simply brushed off the specter of terrorism.

Audio recordings released by Colonel Qaddafi on Sunday night, which expressed defiance, were of limited use in discerning his circumstances.

In a televised interview afterward, he, too, expressed defiance and optimism that turnout would not be diminished by the violence.

News of the killing spread through the province where General Mujahid has many tribesmen and supporters, some of whom expressed defiance and grief.