But what keeps this defiance from being admirable or even, in the end, all that appealing is that it is so fundamentally ungenerous, so heedless of the harm that might be done to others.
Like the tiny American flag that a friend saw planted in the turban of a Sikh, little signs of pride and defiance keep showing up in very odd places and in even odder ways.
If the exiles somehow win, and keep Elian here in defiance of the law, it would dismay many people here -- the anglos, blacks and non-Cuban Hispanics, said some political experts.
While the Grow Home design proved to be a niche success, it didn't change popular tastes, which kept inflating in defiance of all warnings about sustainability.
Then, with television cameras from around the country and the world trained on him, he said he would not allow his police department to aid any effort by the federal authorities to remove a 6-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, from the home where Miami relatives kept him in defiance of a federal order to return him to Cuba.
She continually invents ways "to keep the tension in my defiance of Mammy".
LONDON — Congratulations are in order for Blær Bjarkardottir, the 15-year-old Icelandic girl who this week won the legal right to keep her given name in defiance of the despotic-sounding Icelandic Naming Committee.
"What do you think the SCAF will do?" "It's not about what they are going to do," he said, with the defiance that has keep this revolution moving forward.
Greek state TV broadcasts were dramatically switched on again on Thursday after broadcasters across Europe stepped in to try and keep ERT on air, in defiance of a government order to close the service down citing "chronic corruption" and "waste".
"If hedge funds are helping to keep interest rates low in defiance of the Fed's efforts, they are contributing to the housing boom that some believe is becoming a speculative bubble".
