Sentence examples for in utter defiance from inspiring English sources

The only thing we can be sure will happen under a Conservative government is that a private members' bill to restrict womens' right to abortion will be successfully steered through parliament by Nadine Dorries and her cohorts, in utter defiance of the science.

ZANU and ZAPU boycotted the elections held per the Internal Settlement in April 1979, which UN Security Council Resolution 448 called "sham elections... [held] in utter defiance of the United Nations".

Abbas accordingly rebuffed Obama's entreaty for a milder resolution and the American president suffered the embarrassment of issuing his first veto in the UN in utter defiance of the hopes expressed so eloquently in his Cairo speech.

All of which makes me think of the out-of-control use of chemicals in global agribusiness, in its for-profit zeal to turn the planet's arable land into endless acres of monoculture, in utter defiance of, and war against, the diversity of nature.

In utter defiance of these pressures, nature has nonetheless tenaciously retained genes in organelles.

The document might be even more remarkable, however, for its tone of utter defiance.

This deplorable tendency was first observed by my fifth-grade teacher, who dubbed me Miss Importance, and by the mothers of my childhood friends, who trembled at the phrase "Judy says," usually uttered in defiance of their own better judgments.

I was in utter disbelief.

Often it has been in utter disrepair.

He listens in utter shock.

England are in utter disarray.