Sentence examples for mutual defiance from inspiring English sources

Why are service industries so backward and what might be done to improve them?For more than a decade after a financial crisis in 1989 plunged once-booming Japan into a long period of slow growth, weak companies and wobbly banks clung to each other in mutual defiance of reality.

Remember when a chest bump was not a gravity-flouting expression of mutual delight but an act of defiance reserved for fiery baseball managers trying to make their point to uncooperative umpires?

It was defiance for defiance's sake.

Stage 2: defiance.

Even sweeter defiance?

He responded with defiance.

But the rapturous reception, with its edge of defiance and desperation is no doubt a warming note on this chilly morn, and he answers several patsy questions (more hymns of mutual admiration) from Harriet's hand-picked candidates.

And inherent defiance.

It exuded defiance.

Such defiance unnerved the king.

The Spaniards reacted with defiance.