Defiance in example sentence

Unfortunately, given Bush’s repeated assertions – in defiance of America’s constitutional tradition of checks and balances – that his office endows him with unilateral powers to violate rights, he appears to be untroubled by that prospect.

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Lessons of defiance have always been taught by fashion's great revolutionaries: its designers.

It goes hand in hand with doubt, in a never-ending conversation with it, and sometimes in conscious defiance of it.

And this conscious defiance is why I, as an agnostic, can still have faith.

And there's a patina of simple defiance among them.

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