(n.) The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.
(n.) A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition.
(n.) A casting aside; renunciation; rejection.
Example Sentences:
(1) The glory lay in the defiance, although the outcome of the tie scarcely looks promising for Arsenal when the return at Camp Nou next Tuesday is borne in mind.
(2) 'This is the upside of the downside': Women's March finds hope in defiance Read more As thousands gathered for the afternoon rally and march, Trump tweeted his solidarity with their action.
(3) North Korea's blustering defiance at the annual US-South Korean exercises masks just a little fear that they could easily be turned into an all-out attack, and seems to work on the principle that the more you shout, the safer you will be.
(4) With Bournemouth full of zest and defiance, the game zipped by.
(5) Residents in Spain’s north-eastern region of Catalonia cast their ballot in a symbolic referendum on Sunday in defiance of the central government in Madrid and Spain’s constitutional court.
(6) In a burst of defiance, I wanted to answer: “Yes, you bet I can get around safely!” Over a cup of tea, I discussed the problem with my wife.
(7) But the British government is facing a catch-22 situation, being equally anxious – as former diplomat Oliver Miles pointed out in the London Review of Books – to avoid setting the opposing precedent of allowing Assange to remain as a fugitive within the embassy in defiance of a European arrest warrant.
(8) In the early hours of Friday, exactly 25 years after US forces bombed Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound in central Tripoli, thousands gathered in defiance of the new international coalition against the Libyan regime's brutal efforts to suppress the uprising from the east.
(9) Since his unexpected victory, Trump has sounded a note of defiance regarding the legality of continuing with his business operations in tandem with the presidency.
(10) The city responded with a mixture of fear and defiance, sharing pictures of cuddly animals on hashtags for the attack in place of the usual images of police, and offering homes, mosques and even grounded train carriages as shelter for those stranded by the shutdown.
(11) They fit with his continuation of the regime’s systemic human rights abuses, its pitiless prison labour camp system including enslavement, forced abortions and systemic rape, its abductions and foreign hostage-taking, and its aggressive defiance of its neighbours.
(12) Despite his bullish defiance over the weekend following his re-election – blaming US investigators and the British media for trying to unseat him – Blatter cut a diminished figure following a day of speculation over the fate of his right-hand man Valcke.
(13) He said the evidence of their lies and conspiracies – a tactic known as the "defiance strategy" – at the very least raised substantial doubts about the prosecution case.
(14) While deplorable and to a degree self-defeating, this insouciant defiance also makes a grim kind of sense, both historically and reinforced by recent events.
(15) The head of Greenpeace International was being held by police in a Greenland cell on Friday after boarding a giant oil rig in defiance of a court injunction .
(16) That resumption of normality is, in itself, a predictable and a necessary act of defiance.
(17) The defiance (but not the hyperactivity) scales were associated with impairment of family relationships and adverse social factors.
(18) However, citing the brutality of security agents, the arrests and disappearance of opposition supporters, he says that Museveni’s actions are illegal and that “it is the duty of Ugandans to stand up in defiance and challenge him”.
(19) Claire Perry , the Devizes MP and a ministerial aide to the defence secretary Philip Hammond, recently tried unsuccessfully to persuade female colleagues to stop dyeing their hair for a month, letting their grey roots show in a statement of defiance against the pressure on women to look artificially young.
(20) After all, every veto holder had attacked another country in defiance of the charter, but no one had ever disputed the alleged Westphalian right of each anointed thug to mistreat his "own" people.
Uncooperative
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In 25 patients we evaluated the efficacy of the prone position to counter these technical difficulties and found that the prone position offers visualization superior to the supine, especially in obese and uncooperative patients and those with abundant bowel gas.
(2) Obstacles to successful treatment include an erratic schedule, mistrust of authority, and uncooperative or aggressive behavior.
(3) It was found that psychiatric and nursing observations corresponded over a wide area of psychopathology: anxiety, tension, depression, hostility, preoccupation with hypochondriacal, grandiose and self-depreciatory ideas, hallucinosis, thought disorders, mannerisms, retardation, emotional withdrawal, hypomanic activity and uncooperative behaviour.
(4) Conscious sedations were performed on 20 uncooperative 2-4-year old children.
(5) A method is described for obtaining consistently high-quality images during nonneurologic computed tomography of the severely ill and uncooperative patient using a neuromuscular blocker to induce apnea.
(6) Proficiency in the recognition and interpretation of these clinical symptoms, physical signs, laboratory data, ECGs, and radiographic findings is important when evaluating acutely ill, uncooperative, or unresponsive patients.
(7) Frequently, the uncooperative patient is labeled as having a poor or defiant attitude toward orthodontic treatment.
(8) The results showed a significant difference between DHEC and placebo with regard to total and partial scores of SCAG as well as to single items (mental alertness, recent memory, disorientation, anxiety, mood depression, emotional lability, motivation, uncooperativeness, fatigue, headache, tinnitus).
(9) The subjects of the investigation were 45 uncooperative patients who had difficulty in accepting regular dental treatment.
(10) From the outset, he was dealt a severe handicap: an uncooperative and reform-averse Senate.
(11) The use of this simple and reliable technique for recording the electroretinogram made it possible to include this investigation as a routine procedure without the need for sedation in infants and uncooperative children.
(12) Based on its use in unilateral family therapy with 68 spouses of uncooperative alcohol abusers, procedural guidelines, criteria for use, and two case examples from a crossover experimental dyad are described.
(13) Splenic Mchi, however, are neither uncooperative nor inhibitory when interacting with peritoneal T cells.
(14) Pediatric cancer patients often become anxious, agitated, combative, and uncooperative due to the pain or fear of pain during invasive procedures.
(15) At the present time they are the best objective non-invasive audiometric tests (versus subjective psychoacoustic examinations) for predicting hearing thresholds in infants and uncooperative patients.
(16) For those who had a depressive state and who became uncooperative, "conjoint" sessions with the patients and their family members (e.g.
(17) Riders are labeled as uncooperative, selfish, not team players – it must be the case, rider A has been in the sport four years and has moved teams each year.
(18) The incidence of 'uncooperativeness' and drug side-effects, and the proportion of participants who complied with and completed treatment also varied significantly from country to country.
(19) Contraindications for gastric lavage are similar to those for emesis except that it may be safer to use in obtunded, comatose, or uncooperative patients.
(20) The students spent a great proportion of their time examining the child, yet their findings were questionable particularly if the child was uncooperative.