Sentence examples for is a defiance from inspiring English sources

In itself, this is a defiance of the ruling ayatollahs, who long ago banned the dishes as un-Islamic.

I have always considered it a crime of laziness, but there is a defiance and contempt for the environment behind it too.

There is a defiance in being ready for disaster; but there is as much defiance in celebrating life in the face of oppressors.

There is a defiance in showing Afghan girls feeling free and liberated, even if it is just in this closed environment".

In a country where most women cover their heads and some hide inside full-body burkas, where sexual feelings are seen as a challenge to purity and uprightness, a dancing woman is a defiance and a threat, and Ms. Kermani knows it.

Madoc, believing it is a defiance against God, leads the Hoamen, a local tribe, into warfare against the Aztecs.

It's a defiance of legal authority.

He added that the decision was "a defiance of UN resolutions".

It was a defiance of a law.

Wistful and idiosyncratic, "What Is Told" is a narrative of defiance, resignation, perseverance.

There is a certain defiance in the new coat of white paint along the bottom half of the A.M.E.