Sentence examples for this sort of defiance from inspiring English sources

(This sort of defiance got him excommunicated).

For Terry, that was the sort of defiance he loves.

In a country where organized crime operates with fantastic impunity, this sort of ground-level defiance was unusual, if not unique.

Up to a million new homes are to be forced on the over-crowded south-east by John Prescott, deputy prime minister and minister for this sort of thing, in defiance of the wishes of local people and their representatives in the councils.And then there is education—still, at least in theory, the biggest thing for which local government retains responsibility.

This sort of clothing usually gives the impression of "defiance" — in other words, you know you look like a punk, and you don't care one bit!

It's a sort of defiance.

That sort of defiance is one way for fans to get through the next few seasons as Rangers try to navigate back to the top division.

"I ought to have gone away," he says of his first turn at the tables, "but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it".

Though the subculture is sometimes spoken of in past tense, plenty of people still identify as cholas or have maintained chola elements in their style, which continue to signify the same sort of defiance the original pachucas did.

This sort of deluded thinking exists in open defiance to the most primitive forms of logic, compassion, and integrity.

Nader Said, a sociologist at Bir Zeit University in Ramallah, said that the Israeli occupation had instilled in Palestinians "their defiance of authority in general, and this sort of tendency for freedom -- wanting personal freedom, and to not be controlled".