Defiance
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“We did not agree to dismantle anything,” Iran’s foreign minister insisted in
defiance
of the US interpretation of the nuclear deal.
Those who did not surrender wanted to show their
defiance.
It is also suspected of drilling horizontally into the South’s oil fields, in
defiance
of the CPA.
In
defiance
of the UN conventions, some countries have adopted more pragmatic approaches to dealing with drug use and HIV.
Nor was North Korea impressed by Obama’s warnings that America might shoot down its rocket if they went ahead with their launch in
defiance
of the United Nations.
Other countries have violated the Stability Pact, but France is the first to do it with smirking, open
defiance.
Defiance
of the Supreme Leader by millions of Iranians just a day after he firmly endorsed Ahmadinejad threw the country into a political crisis.
Sadly, North Korea has betrayed the US at least three times since then: it conducted a second nuclear test in May 2009; launched a satellite in April 2012 in
defiance
of UN Security Council Resolutions 1718 and 1874; and carried out a third nuclear test in February 2013.
With their defiance, the coup was doomed.
The Kremlin’s
defiance
of the US extends to southwest Asia as well.
Underlying the “Asia for Asians” trope may be China’s belief that the US, not its own behavior, is to blame for its neighbors’
defiance.
But that does not appear to be the case in North Korea, where the flubbed launch of its long-range Unha-3 rocket has merely set the stage for a new level of defiance: the detonation of yet another nuclear device, perhaps bigger than in the past.
There used to be a measure of sympathy in Asia for the plucky North Koreans and their systematic
defiance
of the United States and the rest of the international community.
Indeed, we have seen Islamists, liberals, and leftists standing together in
defiance.
USA!” and “Drill, baby, drill” sounded like cries of desperation, as well as of
defiance
against an enemy who threatens American’s divine right to remain supreme.
In
defiance
of overwhelming global opposition, not to mention past United Nations General Assembly and Security Council resolutions, Trump announced that the US will officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
But both are being celebrated as examples of the EU’s achievements: Rapidly recovering Ireland is being lionized as a model for other troubled economies, while the still-fragile Greece is being held aloft in
defiance
of those who warned that the EU would crumble.
America’s official narrative has sought to conceal the scale and calamitous consequences of US efforts – in
defiance
of international law and the UN Charter – to overthrow Assad.
In many countries, political dissidents (like the captives in “Fidelio”) are locked up – or worse – in
defiance
of the clear and open procedures that should ensure the rule of law.
Declaring in advance - in
defiance
of the elementary rules of war making - that NATO will not use ground troops gave Milosevic the advantages of initiative and a sense of security.
More broadly, Putin’s
defiance
of US hegemony could attract support from countries and peoples worldwide that resent American-imposed values and norms.
That is India’s situation today, as many high officials display willful disregard for the letter of the law and flaunt their
defiance
of its spirit.
And, in
defiance
of a Supreme Court ruling, she sought a constitutional amendment that would make the Senate, whose members are appointed, an elected body.
By pursuing aggressively unilateral policies that flout broad global consensus, President Donald Trump effectively justifies his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping’s longtime
defiance
of international law, exacerbating already serious risks to the rules-based world order.
But, where Evita’s voice was full of the “pathos” of poverty and injustice, of passion and tenderness, Cristina evokes more anger and
defiance.
Instead, there is
defiance
and self-affirmation: “They will not do that to me...”Evita was the wife who would intercede before her husband to defend her “children,” the crowds of “descamisados,” or shirtless people.
Brexiteers look back fondly at King John’s
defiance
of Pope Innocent III in the thirteenth century.
So, in
defiance
of overwhelming evidence, the IMF now wants to target the remaining sector, pensions, where massive cuts – more than 40% in many cases – have already been made.
From the “People Power” revolution that toppled Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines in 1986 to Boris Yeltsin’s
defiance
of the attempted coup against Mikhail Gorbachev of August 1991, to the Rose, Orange, and Cedar Revolutions of recent years, dictators have been forced to admit defeat when enough people stand up to them.
In
defiance
of both the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (the Espoo convention) and the EBRD loan agreement, the program was undertaken in the absence of any consultation with Ukraine’s European neighbors.
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