Word: defiant
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...opposition to the janitors’ demands, is UNICCO. It employs over half of the 10,000 janitors currently seeking a new contract. Although six contractors have signed an interim agreement with the janitors that would give them health care and full-time work, UNICCO remains openly defiant, employing hundreds of replacement workers as strikebreakers and continuing an ad campaign aimed at discrediting the janitors and their union. UNICCO is widely despised by Boston janitors for their abusive employment practices...
...album kicks into gear from the first lick and maintains its intensity to the last defiant riff. Songs like “Inhuman Creation Station” throb with rebellion against society’s shackles. With disjointed lyrics sketching out a mocking theme (“Work with the team to meet the deadline!!! / A modern man cannot survive / Drowning in formaldehyde”), the song pounds with individualistic energy...
Nevertheless, SNAP members remained defiant despite the dropped challenge during the 45-minute press conference, which was heavily attended by local media...
...trapped deep inside enemy territory, and he's about to blow his cover. A mob of flag-waving Sri Lankans, dancing to the hypnotic beat of bongo drums, has surrounded him. Undaunted, Rashud rises from his seat, his country's colors proudly displayed on his T-shirt, and stands defiant. "Pakistan is the greatest," he screams...
...dismiss the argument as “anti-Semitic.” Financial support from the American government, private Americans both Jewish and Christian, the American armaments industry and American Jewish “settlers” of the West Bank have all enabled Israel’s defiant persistence with policies such as the bulldozing of Palestinian villages, closing off water supplies, denial of internationally established human rights and aggressive, escalating retaliation. Our whole world pays a devastating price (because of Islamic extremists’ rhetoric about the American-Israeli alliance) for Israel’s failure to make...