Word: defiant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some 125,000 students, parents and union members marched through the boulevards of Paris last week in memory of Malik Oussekine, a 22-year-old student who had been killed several days earlier in a violent clash with police. Though the overall tone of the procession was somber and defiant, at one point a celebratory cry rang out: "We have...
...rest ranged from defiant to vaguely insulting...
...film is at its best in the first hour, when it explores the ways Charles and Audrey fulfill each other's fantasies. She is his risk-taking, defiant lover. He is her loving, stable husband. The relationship is odd but sweet and interesting. Whether or not it will last is the next logical question, and one that interests the audience...
Meese focused his attack on Cooper vs. Aaron, a 1958 decision prompted by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus' defiant resistance to the court's earlier landmark school-desegregation ruling, Brown vs. Board of Education. In a unanimous decision, the Justices pronounced that their decisions were the "supreme law of the land." Nonsense, said Meese. Yes, a Supreme Court decision "binds the parties in a case and also the Executive Branch for whatever enforcement is necessary. But such a decision does not establish a 'supreme law of the land' that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore...
...home last week after 25 days in prison. In an interview with TIME, the charismatic leader of the opposition to Pakistan President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq sounded more bitter and less certain than when she was firing up huge crowds with calls for national elections. But she was still defiant, blaming the government for the fact that 40 people have been killed in recent disturbances. "This regime is prepared to shoot at people quite mercilessly," she said. Nonetheless, Bhutto appeared shaken by her imprisonment, and by the failure of the millions who cheered her return from exile last spring...