Poland is on the outs with much of Europe these days, but to judge from the defiance of its top officials, opposition leaders and ordinary Poles, that suits people here just fine.
The country responds with bluster of its own, winning hearts in the region with appeals to Islam, Palestinian rights and the defiance of Western hypocrisy.
that "all hell is truly on its way" — to the lean defiance of "Knocked Up" and, suitable for the occasion, the triumphal "Manhattan," which promises to "show this town how to kiss these stars".
Elvis's daughter and the ex-wife of Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage gets her say in troubled, semiconfessional rock songs that aspire to the sullen defiance of Garbage.
"In the recent presidential election, millions of Afghans went to the polls to express their defiance of the Taliban," Davood Moradian, director of the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies, told VICE News.
For a few years before his death in Havana in 2008, Agee ran Cubalinda.com, an online travel agency that catered to Americans adventurous enough to visit to Cuba in defiance of the U.S. trade embargo.
Last weekend, 1m people in Taiwan joined hands in a 300-mile human chain from the north to south to show their defiance of the mainland.
On 26 June, Clorinde landed at Diego Garcia and collected fresh water and coconuts before beginning the return journey to France in defiance of the orders to continue on to Batavia issued before the convoy left Brest.
Erdogan, in a Facetime interview with CNN Turkey, urged his supporters to take to the streets in defiance of the military imposed curfew.
In Hungary, citizens were asked by prime minister Viktor Orbán to vote on closing the door to refugees in defiance of the EU.
