• Mr Aznar is also proud of bringing the peseta into Europe's single currency at its outset, in defiance of many doubters at home and abroad.

    ECONOMIST: Spain

  • Obama's recent post-election trash talking directed at Congress is "defiance politics" that misunderstands what it means to win an election, Navarrette said.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • McCain aides had said that Joe Wurzelbacher, also known as Joe the Plumber, would appear with the Republican presidential candidate at his event in Defiance.

    CNN: Biden says GOP ticket has economic priorities 'upside down'

  • "He was more than happy to push the public school's rules to breaking point and a little beyond, but he - mostly - stopped short at the stage where his defiance would inflict serious damage to either his person or his academic career, " the book states.

    BBC: Leaders love to be interesting

  • Smith, never one for the purists and never one to care about that, produced exactly the sort of single-minded defiance required when resuming 333 behind at 13-0.

    BBC: South Africa openers defy England

  • It was the one blot on a day marked by the defiance of athletes and spectators in the bright London sunshine at the end of a difficult week for the athletics community.

    NPR: Kebede Wins London Marathon Amid Tight Security

  • Take away a pie and a plastic spoon for a sunset picnic at the waterfront Louis Valentino Jr Park, once home to Fort Defiance, which protected Manhattan from British ships in 1776 during the American Revolutionary War.

    BBC: A remote hook in New York��s harbour

  • Arsenal have suffered 10 days of soul-searching and criticism after allowing Spurs to secure an unlikely draw and losing in acrimonious circumstances at Stoke City but they responded with an almost open show of defiance on and off the pitch.

    BBC: Arsenal 2-1 Man Utd

  • Just wanting to get home after a long day at work, Rosa Parks may not have been planning to make history, but her defiance spurred a movement that advanced our journey toward justice and equality for all.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • He seems to have realized that this assertive stroke stabilized the figure, suggesting a downward pull, rather than defiance of gravity, since the feet in the other studies and the finished painting are neatly crossed at the ankles and pulled back to imply motion.

    WSJ: A Dizzying Artistic Feat | Edgar Degas | Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando | By Karen Wilkin

  • After being elected Yorkshire President following his success at Saltley, Scargill became NUM President in 1981 and the scene was set for the 1984 dispute when, in defiance of the government's demand that 20 uneconomic mines should be closed with the loss of 20, 000 jobs, the strike went ahead without the endorsement of a pit head ballot.

    BBC: Analysis: Arthur Scargill's silence over Thatcher death

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