Sentences with 'defiance'
Example sentences and phrases with the word defiance and other words derived from it.
• « This was reflected in the Spanish revolt that began in 1808, the resurgence of Austria and Prussia and their 'liberation' struggles against Napoleon, the Russian leadership of the anti-Napoleonic coalition that followed, and the fierce British pride in their defiance of French military pretensions. »
• « Existentialists called living in this way "authenticity" - a kind of courageous defiance of the despair of being alive without higher purpose or meaning. »
• « Benjamin Franklin described the Paxton Boys as "the barbarous men who committed the heinous act, in defiance of the government, of all human and divine laws, and to the everlasting disgrace of their country and colour", declaring that "the wickedness cannot be covered, the guilt will fall on all the earth, till justice is done to the murderers. The blood of the innocent shall cry to heaven for vengeance." »