Word: defiant
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...Captain Crommelin, as defiant as ever, would have none of any such suggestions. "If I ever start to quit," he declared dramatically, "you will know I have been given the Cardinal Mindszenty treatment...
Graceful Yielding. The ladies went out in the streets and circulated defiant petitions; they held meeting after meeting. In their spare time, Ligue members went around ringing doorbells to press their drive. Last fortnight, powerful support came from Lake Success, New York: in an ornately worded note to the Haitian government, the United Nations inquired, in effect, when the Haitians were going to get around to letting their women vote as full citizens...
...emissary of peace; you were acceptable among us in the role of a friend . . . but you betrayed the cause of peace. You have, by your acts, attempted to destroy the hopes of millions . . . And you do all this with arrogance . . . there is a smile on your lips . . . you are defiant of all humanity." Then, sentencing Gubichev to 15 years in prison, and suspending the sentence, the judge warned that he would still have to face some day another tribunal, the "omnipotent Judge, who will pass judgment...
Last week from the offices of Communist union officials in French ports came a stream of defiant announcements. Example: "In no circumstances will American war matériel be unloaded...
...eleven years, world-famed Catalan Cellist Casals has lived his life of simple but defiant exile in Prades. When he came to Prades, it was with a vow that he would never play again in his native Spain so long as Dictator Francisco Franco was in power. Then, soon after World War II, he decided not to play any more in public...