Sentence examples for level of defiance from inspiring English sources

"The level of defiance is running high.

The geeky protagonist flaunts every rule he encounters... albeit while demonstrating a noticeably wary level of defiance.

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria displayed a new level of defiance on Thursday, warning Israel that he could permit attacks on the Golan Heights and suggesting that he had secured plenty of weapons from Russia — possibly including an advanced missile system — as his opponents faltered politically and Hezbollah fighters brought momentum to his military campaign to crush the Syrian insurgency.

"In order to justify what happened here there has to be a level of defiance or a weapon," Heal said.

Later, she angrily dismisses Bill's revelation that her restaurant tips belong to the entire family, which practically puts her at Lois levels of defiance.

And this time, they said, North Korea might raise the level of its defiance by detonating a uranium-fueled bomb, although it remained uncertain whether the country had acquired enough highly enriched uranium for a bomb.

Plus, it takes an extra level of psychological defiance to have another woman in your marital bed beside your wedding pictures.

The level of self-rationalization, defiance, willful ignorance and simple denial was extraordinary.

Despite the above, a few of the accounts from women who had some level of formal education indicated agency and defiance or at least the potential for defiance in situations where they needed or wanted skilled care but their husbands or mothers-in-law had decided against using health facility services.

"His ability to represent himself on an individual level and accept the role of being a symbol of defiance and courage is a huge part of his legacy".

Any woman making art at Frankenthaler's level in the 1950s did so, at least in part, from a necessary sense of defiance.