Defiance in example sentence

In an early show of defiance, North Korea seized three Chinese fishing boats, detained a reported 29 people on board for 13 days (during which they were allegedly abused), and then demanded $190,000 in compensation for illegal fishing in North Korean waters.

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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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