Sentence examples for expression of defiance from inspiring English sources
For others a rejection of our culture's insistence we be groomed, a socially acceptable expression of defiance.
Some suggest that this is a self-destructive expression of defiance of authority and the French state.
Her novel, which emerged from a dream, is an expression of defiance, a blasphemous book that almost accidentally had huge reverberations into the future.
The Advertising Standards Authority ASAA) noted that the image showed Rihanna mainly covered, and she was depicted looking directly at the viewer with a facial expression "of defiance rather than vulnerability".
"There is always a part of the FN vote that is an expression of defiance, but we see in this election that there has been a vote of support for the FN.
and ready to use one of its homegrown art forms as a hedge against futility, an expression of defiance, a repository of dark humor and even a weapon of war.
The ever-subtler expressions of defiance have drawn extraordinary suppressive measures, as security forces engage in the harshest crackdown of President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko's 17 years in power.
CAIRO — Police officers and militia forces crowded the streets of Tehran on Tuesday, setting up checkpoints and making clear that the government had zero tolerance for any further public expressions of defiance to the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a day after Iran's powerful Guardian Council certified his landslide victory.
And the shortages, coupled with a lack of faith in the new won, have caused extreme fluctuations in the price of rice, as well as in the exchange rate.Another man who works in the north-eastern enclave of Rajin-Sonbong, where foreign investment is allowed, says he has seen open expressions of defiance by North Koreans.
The ASA agreed that Rihanna's facial expression was "of defiance rather than vulnerability", but still deemed the advert "provocative".
