As a statement of defiance, it was more effective than insulting a head of state. |
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Sin is the estrangement between God and humans instigated by human defiance or abnegation. |
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She took a small bowlful of cherries in defiance of the usual selection the women made of crackers spread thinly with jam. |
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Despite initial defiance, the travellers appear to have left of their own accord. |
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I see the people of England united in a fierce detestation and defiance of the views and acts of Prussian Junkerism. |
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Twenty-five thousand people, armed to the teeth, were ranging the city in utter and ruthless defiance of law and righteousness. |
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Some questioned whether Tarkin's methods were merely bids to aggrandize his own status, in defiance of the Emperor's ultimate goal. |
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He said nothing, but the tight set of his jaw made it quite clear that he did not approve of what he considered direct defiance of his wishes. |
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This defiance is surely what appealed to the Glasgow students who voted him rector. |
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Nkosi explained that Sisulu was the invisible power behind Mandela's successful defiance of the oppressive apartheid regime. |
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For one state to push its own foreign policy in contradiction, and even defiance, of the federal government is a new phenomenon. |
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Aerin glared defiance at him, but beneath that defiant facade, Cole detected fear. |
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This final act of defiance precipitated a lockdown of the entire Texas state prison system. |
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Other workers have saluted and respected their determination and defiance, and blame Labour for the intransigence of the employers. |
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They stand out a mile, and their final act of defiance is appallingly preposterous and embarrassing. |
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He criticised martial law but warned of bloodshed and civil war, counselling patience rather than defiance. |
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She complained about the country's lax security and lauded John Kerry for his defiance of the President. |
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Lighting up showed defiance, depression, anti-social or self-destructive behaviour, humour and, in at least one case, great irony. |
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But on both occasions the bans were met with extremely successful defiance. |
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She didn't hear the footsteps madly raging towards her, or the ferocious bellow of defiance that should have greeted her ears. |
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Soldiers bellyache all the time, but only a minority turn complaint into defiance. |
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When the demystified word can be read clearly, our defiance becomes the first step toward freedom. |
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Disaffected from school, he was getting into trouble for defiance and misbehavior in and out of school. |
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He was angry, while the organisers made plain their unhappiness at what they saw as a petulant show of defiance. |
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The characteristic feature of monopoly prices is the monopolist's defiance of the wishes of the consumers. |
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We have only ourselves to blame for letting the politicians give away power, in defiance of our constitutional rights. |
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Grasping the solidified handle in a tight two-handed grip, she held her weapon in front of herself, glaring at her opponent in unveiled defiance. |
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Do not quench it by foolish unbelief and sinful defiance of our loving Saviour. |
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In early 1861, underground resistance and open defiance were rampant in that state. |
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There is a fine echo about these words, which keeps bombilating round and round in the head with utter defiance of sense and progress. |
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Many a push battle was called in the dark, to the cry of 'Give 'em Bondi!', a memorial echo of defiance. |
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An uncomfortable silence fell over the room and Andy quietly sat, her chin lifted in mute defiance, as her mother and stepfather stared at her. |
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Blair's defiance is possible only because of the unprincipled character of the opposition he faces. |
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A fortnight on from his now infamous defiance of the smoking ban, our own John Deasy remains as unrepentant as he has been from day one. |
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His is a story of a remarkable, unyielding spirit and uncompromisingly fierce defiance. |
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The follow up chases hot on its heels with more brassy and in-your-face lyrics of defiance and determination. |
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How can such brazen defiance of health and safety regulations be tolerated? |
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In lyrics often borrowed from popular culture they speak of defiance and resistance. |
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Behind him, the virescent beast crouched as if about to leap again, bellowing defiance and raising clenched fists that were as big as hams. |
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There was defiance in the air as huntsmen and women toasted the last legal York and Ainsty South hunt with stirrup cups of port. |
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It is hard to dismiss the image of him at the opening of the parliament last May taking the oath with his fist clenched, a study in defiance. |
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The man is hunched over, bent by the difficulties in his life, but his expression is resolute to the point of defiance. |
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The lead story of every court session has been his demeanor, his defiance, his imperiousness. |
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He says that powerful conservative interests want him punished because he's a figurehead for defiance of authority. |
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Ours must be that first painful step of open and courageous defiance against an arrogant and insolent tyranny. |
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His decision instead to publish on the eve of polling day is a small but clear signal of defiance. |
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Not content with continuing to sing both old roles and new in defiance of his 62 years, Domingo is preparing to embark on another new project. |
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She hadn't felt hungry before, but her stomach quaked in defiance to its emptiness as her eyes touched the fruit's flawless red flesh. |
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After 12 years of defiance, he refused to comply with the demands of the free world. |
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He was very close to me, and I straightened my back, meeting his smouldering gaze full on in pure defiance. |
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The story stands in defiance of cynics who don't believe you can find your soul mate by placing an advert on the web. |
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His wife dying, his children scattered, he has paid a dear price for his act of defiance. |
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Theirs is a harmless daydream, an ultimately mild gesture of defiance against conformity. |
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This is in defiance of a government order that Tommy should be investigated for evading the law. |
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The next day, a larger number of vendors swarmed the square in defiance of the authorities. |
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Any structures erected in defiance of this law would be demolished, he warned. |
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Some 5,000 caravans are thought to be on green field or protected land in defiance of planning laws. |
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The workers acted in defiance of a Labor Ministry order for mandatory conciliation. |
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This growing support for the protests has come in defiance of Germany's official trade unions. |
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I clamped them together around the brim of my hat, as if in defiance of them being taken. |
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Still the sight of Cassandra's tears forced her to continue in defiance of the facts. |
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For one fleeting moment the world has acted together in defiance of the group, whose isolation is now exposed for all to see. |
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The numbers of settlements and settlers continue to increase in defiance of the law. |
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Any who fail are to be considered in defiance of This Council and dealt with accordingly. |
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It was a work created in defiance of official notions of good taste and Soviet political correctness. |
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School boards outside Toronto are also edging toward budgeting in defiance of provincial laws. |
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The rally proceeded in defiance of threats of legal action by the government and a massive police presence. |
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In a way, her acts of Promethean defiance find affinity with her father's actions. |
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The moment of explicit defiance of command authority came most often at railway depots or other embarkation points. |
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The depredators were, however, stunned with the courageous defiance by the Queen's soldiers. |
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Only two years later Charles I was executed and his son proclaimed Charles II by the Scots in defiance of the English. |
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Through my defiance, and stupid ways, here was I in a duello, and my legs not come to their strength yet, and my arms as limp as a herring. |
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His mood ranged from nervousness and exasperation to contempt and defiance even anger. |
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A DRINK-DRIVER has escaped jail for taking to the road on an errand of mercy in defiance of a driving ban. |
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Parents also describe their children as having an extreme degree of grandiose defiance, refusing to comply with authority at home or at school. |
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When the masses contact the government anywhere in this anocracy their belief in the government further erodes fueling anger and defiance. |
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He was in shorts, like one of the errant schoolboys he used to chastise, clutching a sheaf of papers, or hastily-composed homework, shaking his general defiance. |
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As an expression of community solidarity, and as a cathartic public moment of defiance in the face of the threat of personal loss, it is a powerful symbol. |
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As with heritage, life histories become coherent and credible only by invention, often in defiance of known fact. They persuade us not as vero but ben trovato. |
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Their defiance sparked a huge wave of international solidarity that saw English dockers blacking Irish goods and collections taken in workplaces across Britain. |
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I find his defiance of organized religion thought-provoking and inspiring. |
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In a striking display of defiance, the frilled lizard opens its mouth, causing its frill, which usually lies flat against its neck, to flare out menacingly. |
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Yet, it was at the hill of Tara that St. Patrick lit the first Paschal fire in 433, which local high king Laoighire regarded as defiance against his pagan gods. |
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Their authority is fundamentally illegitimate to begin with, meaning defiance carries no moral ambiguity, even if the physical consequences for the defier are deadly. |
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Indeed, the language used in defiance of these anti-discrimination laws takes on the language of victimization. |
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The dissident has said he aims to run for president against 24-year incumbent, although the president clapped him in jail for a lesser act of defiance only a few years ago. |
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The art of survival in the shatterbelt has depended most often not upon proud defiance, but artful compromise, not upon bold initiatives, but measured small steps. |
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Even this seemingly conciliatory gesture was in fact an act of defiance. |
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The economy in Aleppo barely exists, and the attitude of those who remain hovers somewhere between defiance and defeat. |
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Zaharchenko on Friday night projected defiance rather than bravado, no doubt buoyed by the Moscow-sent materiel and fighters. |
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She buries her brother, even though this act of defiance will assure her doom. |
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The burqa, like beards for men, has become a declaration of defiance and rejection of all things Western. |
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You could manifest the qualities of oppositional defiance as early as three or four, I guess. |
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The waking of the wood may mean that the slumbrous dream was not real anyway, that daytime reality has now supervened, replacing defiance with pleasant companionship. |
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She replied stubbornly and cocked her chin slightly in defiance. |
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What competent judge in the world would tolerate such open displays of defiance? |
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Her eyes turned to Beatrice and locked in defiance of her former mistress. |
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However their deceit conceals not so much defiance and ineptitude as fear. |
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I saw straight in front of me a khor with rocks on either side filled with a dense mass of Dervishes packed around three flags, yelling defiance at us. |
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His gestures and movements are excessively self-aware in postures of cool and defiance, and for this very reason betray the emotions and vulnerability beneath. |
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Police need to uncross their arms that are folded in defiance and defensiveness across their chests. |
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Another 10 slaves threw themselves overboard in a display of defiance at the inhumanity. |
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She had just shot her arrow at an electric force field, an apparently society-changing act of defiance. |
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I broke away from Andrew suddenly, in a liberating gesture of defiance. |
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So, we founded A is For, an organization that uses the scarlet letter A as an instantly recognizable symbol of defiance and unity. |
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The two leaders had earlier led a march of hundreds of demonstrators in defiance of a government ban on protest rallies or gatherings of more than four people. |
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Rebels and villagers stare out from the psychedelic images with unfiltered defiance. |
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The biggest complaint, a problem the U.S. has been pushing to address, is forced overtime in defiance of what is, on paper, a liberal Cambodian labor law. |
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In an act of defiance he cut of his Coleta that marked them apart. |
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Yes, their littleness, the little publicity that they receive, are a kind of defiance to the epoch in which all that counts is measured in big figures. |
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Both groups have persisted in open defiance of international efforts to encourage the return of those expelled and the reconstruction of their sacral heritage. |
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They follow with the titular track from that album, leaping about the stage like crazed teenagers and thrusting their arms into the air in gestures of defiance. |
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The mainstream Tupac musical holler If Ya Hear Me is, in some ways, an act of defiance for the poet-actor-musician Saul Williams. |
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Beyond it great beams of light lit up the depths of Glen Loyne and somewhere down below, red deer stags roared defiance at each other across the glen. |
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Instead, her defiance of emergency rule has been carefully calibrated. |
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Today, Americans have adopted the Stars and Stripes not so much as a symbol of defiance against an aggressor but as an emblem for their grief and mourning for what happened. |
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Nor would the Virgin Queen oblige by naming a successor, but left her ministers to do it in defiance of English laws and at some risk to themselves. |
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He wanted me to know the sort of country I was living in and what was going on around me, in defiance of the chronically mendacious official propaganda. |
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In defiance of their trade unions, the workers were striking for improved working conditions and the release of a co-worker arrested for campaigning for a hartal. |
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Freedom, unless it gets squandered in the name of fear or defiance, will endure long after this fragile, rootless hate campaign has burned itself to ashes. |
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As the Queen's Guard played the national anthem I had expected puffed-out chests, hands on hearts and the proud defiance you normally associate with The Star Spangled Banner. |
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A Supreme Court decision was met, and balked, with utter defiance. |
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He thus strikes a posture of defiance, an antishame posture that is one of the most popular ways of combating shame in Melville's characters. |
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This last feature, in defiance of the law of heat naturally going up, is designed to prevent dust ingression and its blocking of heat emission. |
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Their defiance led to the death of Philip Jacobs, also known as Oker, a bookie aged 53 from Whitechapel. |
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Coming from a writer peering with wonder and defiance into the crepuscule of life, it's a delight that readers should savor. |
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For Ayatollah Khamenei, China is a model to avoid and its journey from defiance to pragmatism a path to resist. |
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Instead, Woodroof smuggled unapproved drugs into America in defiance of his physician. |
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If people show their defiance to the diktats of the Water Service it will cost the Water Service thousands of pounds in postage bills. |
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Mancunians have shown their defiance in the face of terror after a suicide bomber killed 22 people in the city on Monday night. |
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In 1532, Henry VIII was preparing to repudiate Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn, in defiance of the pope. |
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For unknown reasons, Liddell changed his mind overnight and permitted Dodgson to remain at the college in defiance of the rules. |
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King Edward was enraged by such defiance, making hostilities between the kingdoms inevitable. |
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After this defiance, Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly, was granted Torquil's lands. |
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Despite being excommunicated for his defiance, Owain steadfastly refused to put Cristin aside. |
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In early 1990s Albania, protestors waved leeks in defiance of the Communists whose policies had virtually reduced many to this staple. |
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The League of Nations, established at the end of World War I, was unable to act in the face of the Japanese defiance. |
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In defiance Priscillian was ordained to the priesthood and appointed Bishop of Avila. |
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The same demand were sent to Bohemond of Antioch who chose not to fight them instead of defiance. |
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In 1569, the Morisco Revolt broke out in the southern province of Granada in defiance of attempts to suppress Moorish customs. |
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France placing herself in that door assumes to us the attitude of defiance. |
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He despised being away from the rest of the student body and would occasionally act out in defiance by smarting off or by being uncooperative. |
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So we've done work on defense based on noncooperation and defiance, what we call civilian-based defense. |
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Ohanian tells his fascinating success story with youthful optimism, forthrightness and a dash of defiance. |
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Traits expressed by younger generations should not be confused with defiance and troublemaking. |
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The monkey seemed to be sticking his tongue out at me in defiance. |
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He is a ballerina in bovver boots, a West End impresario with East End World War Two defiance. |
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A TOXTETH community devastated by the 1981 riots held a street market in defiance at plans to bulldoze homes. |
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But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. |
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Oh, could I see as then That figure of defiance, as he stood, Isled in a hush, in all his goodlihood, Superb, majestical, a man of men! |
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Warfare is a condition in which there is more greed and more grievance, more deterrence and more defiance. |
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By his hubristic defiance of time, Dorian wanders into an infrahuman realm where he is at the mercy of pitiless daemonic agents. |
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To her frustration, he made little progress and returned to England in defiance of her orders. |
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The name RAISE TWO comes from a gesture of defiance dating back to the Hundred Years' War when French soldiers cut off the bow fingers of English archers. |
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For seventy years, the papacy remained there, and even after the return to Rome, those in defiance of the papacy such as the antipopes, called Avignon their home. |
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Issues such as drug use, attachment disorder, promiscuity, aggression, and defiance can create a barrage of overwhelming and stressful emotions in a family. |
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By 1469, Warwick had formed an alliance with Edward's jealous and treacherous brother George, who married Isabel Neville in defiance of Edward's wishes in Calais. |
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After the execution of her kinswoman Julia Drusi Caesaris by Claudius and Messalina, remained in mourning for forty years in open, and unpunished, defiance of the emperor. |
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Frederick's acceptance of the Bohemian crown in defiance of the emperor marked the beginning of the turmoil that would develop into the Thirty Years' War. |
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Robinson's second-half strike earned the Bluebirds a 2-1 win against high-fliers Sheffield United on Saturday and it was enough to have him roaring defiance. |
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After the recent shooting in Tucson, gun-grabbers have come out of the woodwork clamoring for stricter gun control in open defiance of the Constitution. |
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All these acts of defiance could be attributed to decolonization. |
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Xerxes whipped the Sea, and writ a cartell of defiance to the hill Athos. |
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Margaret, after some initial defiance, surrendered at Stirling in August. |
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In 1839, the General Assembly suspended seven ministers from Strathbogie for proceeding with an induction in Marnoch in defiance of Assembly orders. |
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This defiance was not a fit of pique, but a matter of principle. |
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Becket's defiance as Archbishop alienated the king and his counsellors. |
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