(a.) Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act.
Example Sentences:
(1) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
(2) As the US and the European Union adopted tougher economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine and downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 , Russian officials struck a defiant note, promising that Russia would localise production and emerge stronger than before.
(3) Twitter and Facebook were filling up with pictures of proud, defiant Afghans holding up fingers stained with ink.
(4) We're kicking off with Spain, where prime minister Mariano Rajoy has defiantly insisted that he would not accept a bailout which would force him to inflict further spending cuts or tax rises on the Spanish people Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy answers journalists questions during last night's interview on the national Spanish Public Television (TVE).
(5) Barack Obama's policy of engagement with North Korea lies "in tatters" after it was effectively shot down by Pynongyang's defiant but failed attempt to launch a long-range rocket.
(6) The Greek government’s defiant stance came as the head of the Hellenic Chambers of Commerce , Constantine Michalos, said he did not believe Greece’s banks would be able to reopen next Tuesday without further funding, telling the Daily Telegraph he had been told cash reserves were down to €500m.
(7) Yesterday, however, a defiant Luzhkov – who has run Russia's capital like a personal fiefdom since 1992 – returned home.
(8) She told the court she would not be broken by imprisonment, even if she had to spend 15 or 20 years behind bars, and issued a number of defiant statements from detention.
(9) The defiant Philippine leader has responded to critics with a string of outbursts, including labelling the US ambassador to Manila a “gay son of a whore” , telling the Catholic church “don’t fuck with me” , and accusing the UN of issuing “shitting” statements about his anti-drugs policies.
(10) We must wait to see how the stand-off between aggressive regulator and defiant bank plays out, but what's clear is that these allegations come at the worst possible time for the City.
(11) Further analyses of subgroups of hyperactives at outcome, formed on the presence or absence of ADHD and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), indicated that the presence of ODD accounted for most of the differences between hyperactives and normals on the interaction measures, ratings of home conflicts, and ratings of maternal psychological distress.
(12) Halifa Sallah, the spokesman for Barrow’s coalition, said he expected Jammeh to change his defiant position when he saw that the military were no longer with him, which he thought would happen imminently.
(13) Many commentators considered the suggestion merely foolish, but computer hackers issued death threats against her and her children, which she promptly posted on Twitter, along with the defiant message: "Get stuffed, losers.
(14) Zarif sounded more defiant notes when asked about Iranian human rights and regional stability.
(15) Frequently, the uncooperative patient is labeled as having a poor or defiant attitude toward orthodontic treatment.
(16) The system of government he had built was defiantly non-western, relying not on institutions but on individuals, key power-brokers prized for their loyalty and forgiven for faults that horrified overseas observers.
(17) The women remained defiant throughout the trial, issuing powerful closing statements that quickly entered the canon of Russia's dissident speeches.
(18) "I didn't come here to apologise," Bush told world leaders in a defiant seven-minute speech, even as the IPS daily conference newspaper Terra Viva led off with the story in an arresting headline: "US President Snubs His Nose at Rest of the World."
(19) A defiant Balls claimed last week that, with the chancellor missing his borrowing targets this autumn, voters would start to turn Labour's way next year.
(20) Tatchell told the Guardian he received a defiant message from Chimbalanga that said: "I love Steven so much.
Disobedient
Definition:
(a.) Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts.
(a.) Not yielding.
Example Sentences:
(1) If he felt his actions were consistent with civil disobedience, then he should do what those who have taken issue with their own government do: challenge it, speak out, engage in a constructive act of protest, and – importantly – accept the consequences of his actions.” “He should come home to the United States, and be judged by a jury of his peers – not hide behind the cover of an authoritarian regime.
(2) On February 13, during an act of planned civil disobedience, we both were arrested at the White House .
(3) And national activists say they have recruited more than 75,000 volunteers willing to participate in civil disobedience, should President Barack Obama approve the project.
(4) This could be the beginning of the end for Bulga but we are committed to using civil disobedience, if necessary, to frustrate this expansion, both for Rio Tinto and any future buyer of the mine,” Krey said.
(5) Children who improved and those with persistent problems were initially rated high on overactivity, concentration difficulties and disobedience.
(6) They were more restless, playful, demanding, disobedient.
(7) Instead of talking about the intricacies of tax, it offered spectacle and civil disobedience – and linked tax avoidance to the cuts.
(8) Enemies dismiss its moderate image and claim it is no different from Shia hardliners such as Mushayma, who called for a republic to replace the Al Khalifa dynasty, launched a campaign of civil disobedience and destroyed a dialogue between the opposition and the reformist Crown Prince Salman that might – just – have defused the crisis.
(9) The Danish parliament today passed legislation which will give police sweeping powers of "pre-emptive" arrest and extend custodial sentences for acts of civil disobedience.
(10) For those filling the streets of Moqattam, or the hundreds recreating the Harlem Shake in the same place last month, or the thousands who embarked on a campaign of civil disobedience in Port Said, the idea is laughable.
(11) Nathanson discusses the moral features unique to Operation Rescue, as well as counterarguments against the legitimacy of its activities, in an attempt to determine whether the organization's actions are a legitimate form of civil disobedience.
(12) Their anger has so far been contained to the country's Sunni strongholds, but it contains a counter-revolutionary zeal prompting observers to fear that today's civil disobedience could be the start of something far worse.
(13) But we were refused by the registrar, who said it was “not worth her job” to perform an act of civil disobedience.
(14) Spiers, a founding member of ACT UP, discusses the rationale behind the tactics of civil disobedience employed by AIDS activists.
(15) He for instance noted that now accepted social movements – such as gay rights and the movement to end slavery – began as illegal forms of civil disobedience.
(16) Ammon and his attorneys have continued to argue that the protests in Oregon constituted civil disobedience and that the occupation was not violent.
(17) In 2014, the fast-food giant saw its employees walk out, stage sit-ins and carry out other acts of civil disobedience on multiple occasions.
(18) He argues that civil disobedience is justified by American political and legal traditions, and by the federal government's lack of response to the needs of its citizens.
(19) On Saturday, workers voted in favor of including civil disobedience in their efforts to reach a $15-per-hour minimum wage and the right to form a union without fear of retribution from employers.
(20) Contrasting an imaginary German laboratory worker who in 1939 sabotaged experiments involving the mentally retarded, and an imaginary American animal liberationist who recently vandalized a primate research facility, Singer discusses civil disobedience by animal rightists.