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  • Defiance of gravity and any thoughts of the dragon.
  • In every country there is an upland or outfield territory, which will always bid defiance to agriculture.
  • Defiance in the face of the bastard bailiff can succeed.
  • We have a right to expect that sentences will reflect the damage done to our social fabric by wilful defiance of the law.
  • In the poem of 1711, the bard bids defiance to " mars.
  • Defiance of all logic and commonsense, britain is going to spend £ 7.4 million on examining the health risks of mobile phones.
  • The conference showed defiance by voting in favor of linking the basic pensions with average earnings.
  • His paintings, with their unexpected juxtaposition of objects, are a deliberate defiance of common sense.
  • Defiance of the ban on strikes.
  • If i had been in their shoes and someone else had been in mine, i would have voted to continue the defiance.
  • It does this in virtue of a higher law and in apparent defiance of the lower.
  • Defiance of the laws of nature?
  • We've shown that for regimes that choose defiance, there are serious consequences.
  • Bush may well see this continued defiance by the people of falluja as something that needs to be crushed.
  • Defiance of un resolutions, many more soldiers have been put in harms way.
  • Martin mcguinness - his chief co-conspirator - has been shouting defiance on television north and south at democratic politicians.
  • The boston tea party was an act of open defiance against the british state, at that time the most powerful in the world.
  • Defiance of all international conventions.
  • Teeth, bones, and hair, give the most lasting defiance to corruption.
  • It was to live in direct defiance of the command of the word of god.

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