“The workers acted in defiance of a Labor Ministry order for mandatory conciliation.”

“The Grand Commander poured out to the King his troubles and his needs, giving him a true picture of the mutinies in the armies and the defiance of the rebels.”

“She took a small bowlful of cherries in defiance of the usual selection the women made of crackers spread thinly with jam.”

“When a defier of the gods, like Ajax the son of Oileus, appears, the world approves him and loves him.”

“Man in Mr. Conrad's stories is always a defier of the devils, and the devils are usually put to flight.”

“Yet there was not a single instance of violence in the course of this campaign on the part of any defier.”