Word: defiant
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...hands. Paul was hospitalized once with a nose hemorrhage." Isabelle's melodramatic description may be part of the Duchesnays' Olympic psych-up. As front runners, they have to work all the harder to maintain the diehard, embattled anxiety they will be relying on to spin their dreams and defiant artistry into gold...
...throughout his nation. He knew that CNN might still be seen by about 100,000 Muscovites and thousands of residents in other cities, a tiny percentage of the population but enough to spread word of mouth that the battle for freedom was not lost. The image of a defiant Yeltsin sent the same signal to the rest of the world and heightened pressure on President Bush to denounce the coup. Historians will debate how much impact this televised imagery had on the outcome. But it is noteworthy that a diplomat representing one of the newly independent Baltic republics jubilantly called...
CLEARLY, the Cambridge City Council cannot undercut the authority of the Drug Enforcement Agency on this one. At best, we can hope that the resolution sends a defiant message to our state and federal officials. But the real value of the resolution lies not in what it says, but in who said...
...make sure that Kevorkian's "patients" were of sound mind as they made their decision. As a pathologist more accustomed to dealing with people after they have died, Kevorkian was in no position to confirm the diagnosis of any of the women he helped kill themselves. And his defiant pursuit of publicity suggests a man more obsessed with the justice of his cause than with the interests of his patients...
...Defiant, defensive and plainly fed up with the process, Thomas answered further questions tersely, as the Senators played back Hill's charges to him. "No." "Absolutely not, Senator." "It never occurred." The process, he asserted, was "drowning my life, my career and my integrity. You have robbed me of something that can never be restored...