Sentence examples for standing defiant from inspiring English sources

"There is a strong tradition in Indonesia of standing defiant against international pressure and blaming your own shortcomings on an international plot.

While Britannia was standing defiant last night, determined not to waive the rules on drug cheats, cyclist David Millar and sprinter Dwain Chambers were pondering whether to wade in with legal challenges to the British Olympic Association's lifetime ban.

It caused what became known as the Second Great Fire of London – immortally memorialised by Herbert Mason's photograph of an intact St Paul's Cathedral, standing defiant amid the smoke.

"It's a small miracle in some ways," he said, "but the presence of that chapel standing defiant and serene amid the ruins of war sends an eloquent message about the strength and resilience of the people of New York City, and the people of America".

The problem with standing defiant, though, is that maintaining silence often leaves ravenous voices to take over the conversation and shred what little humanity Muslims can still demand.. True change in this area requires the media and the government to genuinely listen to the Muslim community.

She ends standing defiant against the forces that threaten her, and her male partner joins her and the baby in an image of hope for the future.

Exuding a mixture of danger and smug invincibility when kitted out as a gold-braided emperor, he gradually turns into a scuttling, dream-haunted figure but also one standing proudly defiant before the top-hatted slave-owners.

At 100 metres, the Gormley is defiant, standing up to everything, bring it on; close up he's vulnerable, lost perhaps.

Yet Gaye is also defiant, standing tall, here to deliver some truths with the confidence of a man who no doubt knows he's made a masterpiece.

All of this has only strengthened Mr. Van Peebles's resolve as artist and provocateur, and his new "Sweetback" adapts to the present while standing as a defiant reminder of everything that should have changed but hasn't.

Based on Bernard Cornwell's bestselling series of "Saxon stories", the drama is set in England during the reign of King Alfred, when "the separate kingdoms of what we now know as England have fallen to the invading Vikings and the great kingdom of Wessex has been left standing alone and defiant".