Sentence examples similar to prevent defiance from inspiring English sources
Try to keep defiance in perspective.
First the administration tried, in defiance of all historical precedents, to prevent any independent inquiry.
I learned that refusing to get down on one knee to kiss a visiting bishop's ring and calling your act of defiance your "American individualist spirit" wasn't enough to prevent you from getting into trouble.
The 65-year-old Oklahoma physician is retiring due to health problems, but in one last act of defiance, he prevented the Clay Hunt bill from even getting a vote in the Senate.
After the flaming show of defiance they started battering down the gates to Senate House, which had been locked to prevent them from entering.
There was defiance in that "happily," too — Stewart's insistence that not even the power of the United States government could prevent her from extracting the soil's bounty.
It won't prevent me from spending over 20 contiguous hours trying to persuade activists in Paris to coordinate a citywide mosque blackout in solidarity with the national mood of defiance and in protest against Islam-abuse.
Mr. Ganim's defiance has also prevented him from giving up the idea of running for governor in 2002.
Using teenage defiance to encourage healthy eating; loneliness is heritable; the mystery of the missing crust; preventing kidney stones.
It was defiance for defiance's sake.
