In the past, sometimes residents of targeted houses would take to the roof of the targeted house in defiance; sometimes the IAF pilots would not fire.
When words of defiance fail, sometimes a jumbo pair of cerise bloomers says it all.
Though their acts of defiance may sometimes be dismissed as naivete, when young people harness their natural inclination to question authority and challenge the status quo, they can be powerful catalysts for change.
First, the ability to meet overpowering physical force with a determined, but passive, feat of defiance has sometimes been the death knell of recalcitrant regimes, whether it is the Shah or Marcos – because it points to resources that the protesters have which can overwhelm the state's repressive capacities.
For months, individual members of the sect have staged almost daily acts of defiance in the vast Tiananmen, sometimes unfurling small banners, but generally just meditating or identifying themselves as practitioners to the dragnet of police officers who patrol the square looking for Falun Gong members.
Mr. Fugard said in an interview that the new democratic South Africa -- struggling with poverty and corruption, among other challenges -- needs the arts of stagecraft "as urgently as the old South Africa needed those first few daring, sometimes suicidal acts of defiance in the theater".
As a single parent, she was helpless, trying to raise a pair of temperamental and artistic children whose reaction to everything vaguely disciplinary could be measured in liters -- sometimes imperial gallons -- of defiance.
It became more of a family joke than a family disappointment, because laughter is sometimes the strongest form of defiance.
There were no political statements Wednesday or hints of the smirking defiance that sometimes marked his earlier appearances in court.
But business as usual can sometimes be its own quiet form of defiance.
