Sentence examples for final act of defiance from inspiring English sources
On that day, at a hotel near the Atlanta airport, the owners had finally approved -- 31-0, withethe Oakland Raiders abstaining in one final act of defiance before their owner, Al Davis, died less than three months later -- a collective bargaining agreement that would ensure the season starting on time and assure a decade of labor peace.
Detainees say the hunger strike will be their final act of defiance.
Incredibly, Federer stages one final act of defiance, firing a brilliant backhand to reach deuce.
"More probably, however, it was a weapon of chance, picked up in desperation, in a final act of defiance".
As a final act of defiance, the goings-on at Abbott's Hall seem a spineless admission of defeat.
Then, heaving herself up in a final act of defiance, she disappeared in a swirl of water, smoke and steam.
With an emotional surrender and a final act of electronic defiance, workers at Russia's popular NTV television network ended 11 days of resistance today and ceded control to the state-dominated gas monopoly Gazprom.
His final act of gustatory defiance came on Super Saturday last year, when he and his rebel noshers, clad in Hawaiian shirts, brought in assorted deli sandwiches -- a flagrant flouting of suite lease Rule 6(a), which effectively bars independent picnicking catered by outsiders.
Just north of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, water protectors set their makeshift and traditional structures ablaze in a final act of prayer and defiance against Energy Transfer Partner's Dakota Access Pipeline, sending columns of black smoke billowing into the winter sky above the Oceti Sakowin protest camp.
In his final and most bizarre act of defiance, in 2010 in California, Mr. Tong assaulted a Vietnamese singer whom he deemed sympathetic to the government of Vietnam.
