Sentence examples for official defiance from inspiring English sources

That official defiance continued despite the Americans' increasingly incontrovertible presence.

To say it civilly: the loss to the integrity of the United States from official defiance of the laws, is a loss to all Americans as surely as the killings in Tucson were.

A senior immigration official said her defiance of the final removal order would weigh against her in consideration of prosecutorial discretion, but that her child would be considered a factor in her favor, because deporting her would cause a hardship to an American citizen.

Syrian officials reacted with defiance to the Arab League statement and declined to say if they would receive the Arab envoy, two Lebanese news channels reported.

The opposition continues to demonstrate the power to mount impressive protests in defiance of official warnings and despite the government's fiercely repressive tactics.

Although the administration has not indicated how it would answer new Iraqi defiance, the official refused to rule out the possibility of an "October surprise" of American military action at the height of a campaign, should the Iraqis provoke it.

Was the main appeal of writing the book a synthesis of the available details? The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.

It was a fleeting display of the kind of defiance of official authority that coalition forces are counting on from the people and tribes of western Libya, who dominate the country's military, to drive Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi from power.

Earlier, police baton-charged a crowd blocking a key road in the government district in defiance of official warnings that the demonstrations were illegal.

Reporting from New York -- Anthony Shadid, a journalist who gave voice to those muffled by the turmoil around them — from Iraqi families enveloped in civil war to young Libyans spurred to take up arms against a dictator — died while doing just that: reporting from Syria in defiance of official attempts to limit media coverage of the bloodshed there.

Palestinian officials have reacted with defiance to any foreign governmental effort to end the salaries.