Sentence examples for in open defiance from inspiring English sources

Now they stand in open defiance of it.

He found the paper in "open defiance of the law".

Poachers are heavily armed, and frequently operate in open defiance of state efforts to constrain them.

In the Mediterranean, songbirds are being decimated for fun and profit and in open defiance of law.

In October 2017, they staged an independence referendum in open defiance of the government in Madrid and the Spanish courts.

People walked right up to the fence in front of the police in open defiance, but without anger.

… In open defiance of Baghdad, a Kurdish minister said the peshmerga felt free to travel anywhere in the country.

That said, it was not clear whether Google would unilaterally stop censoring results on Google.cn, its China-based search engine, in open defiance of China's warnings.

The mere fact that Peter relied heavily on foreign advisers was in open defiance of warnings from the Church against close relations with non-Orthodox foreigners.

But officials blamed a similar blackout Monday on individual states drawing too much power from an already overburdened grid, in open defiance of the law.

In Iran, similarly, Russia has worked to maintain close ties with the ruling clerical establishment, in open defiance of US and Israeli-led efforts to isolate the ayatollahs.