Sentences with phrase «act of defiance»

While Fey courageously tore down barriers for women in the television, her greatest act of defiance against the male - dominated industry was making feminism such a casual part of Liz's character.

At the beginning of the study, the researchers measured the girls» externalizing behavior problems (e.g., picking fights and engaging in acts of defiance).

The fact that there is no such promise makes the practice an even more dramatic act of defiance of the fear of death.

Our schools contribute to these conditions when we respond to student misbehaviors and acts of defiance with exclusionary and punitive discipline practices.

In the aftermath of Katniss» most recent act of defiance by taking down the games» force field, President Snow has retaliated by raining bullets and bombs from the sky upon her District 12, leaving craters and decomposing skeletons where people once stood.

President Nishani's emotional presentation in the Assembly parlor drew comparisons between his fellow citizens» acts of defiance towards the Nazis and his nation's recent assistance to the U.S. in the fight against other forms of violent extremism.

To trust in your own aliveness, in your own ability to sustain and be sustained - there are times when there is no greater act of defiance.

As NJ notes, this would set up the bill to be voted on when the Senate returns in January, and would represent a «bold act of defiance against the administration, which was still begging lawmakers this week to sit back and wait to see whether a comprehensive agreement can be reached.»

With her «electrifying» act of defiance at the end of Catching Fire's Quarter Quell, Katniss has stirred the beginnings of a revolution across Panem, and Coin is keen to channel that influence by filming a series of propaganda clips centred on Katniss delivering inspirational rhetoric.

Meanwhile, on his home planet of Pa'Kevutu, a simple act of defiance turns into a large scale revolution that threatens to change the oppressive corporate governmental structure.

Carolee Schneemann calls her retrospective «Kinetic Painting,» as still one more act of defiance.

Is this a deliberate act of defiance?

This further act of defiance shows North Korea's disregard for the concerns of its neighbours and the wider international community.»

The duo's act of defiance brought the number of Republicans signed onto the effort to 20, just five short of the number they need to force votes on four competing measures aimed at preserving the Obama - era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

An immigration attorney I spoke to suggested that, for Idriss, there was little practical risk, and that both Idriss and his employer are paying the price for an unnecessary act of defiance.

In an early act of defiance, every time my mom told me to sit up straight, I did the exact opposite.

But, indulgence is my choice — not a primal act of defiance.

The movie's stakes are alternately personal and political, but Petzold's skill truly comes into focus in the tense climax, when those two aims come together with a powerful act of defiance.

Still, the POW camp seems strangely sanitary, with even the execution of a woman by gasoline and match tastefully edited, brief, and followed quickly by the requisite act of defiance, a secret burial ceremony in the middle of a lush and verdant jungle.

Katniss's concocted act of defiance in the last film, wherein she and Peeta threatened suicide in favor of killing each other, didn't just yield a dual triumph, but the start of an uprising.

He beats a prisoner until he's wrestled away and later talks back to a superior officer, two acts of defiance laden with facile symbolism.

Remy and Beth's final act of defiance is an even weirder convergence of making out and mutilation - the sensual side of surgery.

And when the school gets these kids, it seems deft in its handling of their quirks and adolescent acts of defiance.

Rosa Park's quiet and courageous act of defiance became an important symbol of the Civil Rights Movement and the resistance to racial segregation.

While John is waking up to the fact that he still loves Eva, Eva is confounded by her own grief, and the three children deal with events in their own way, with much of the focus being on 15 - year - old Daisy as she deals with her loss via various secret acts of defiance, culminating in an affair with an older man.

It is through this small act of defiance that Sara sets herself apart from the rest of her community.

In 1774, delegates from 12 colonies gathered at Carpenters» Hall and voted to support a trade embargo against England, one of the first unified acts of defiance against the King.

Sticking your tongue out is deemed rude or a childlike act of defiance railing against etiquette and politeness.

However, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and a gallery with the name «Art of This Century» took another, later act of defiance.

To be able to get back to painting was a real act of defiance for me, especially against myself.

The self - portrait, far from being procedural or obvious, can also be a fierce act of defiance.

Through individual acts of defiance and nonviolent mass protests, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s pushed against the societal norms and laws that allowed discrimination.

The open world dynamically transforms around you as Hearts and Minds increases — a once cowed civilian population will join the resistance in acts of defiance, and the entire Zone will evolve from a state of lockdown to open revolution on the streets.

Initially, the international fixture was expected to be called off, but in a bold act of defiance, the football authorities have opted to proceed with the match.

All is not well in the rest of Panem — as the post-apocalyptic remnants of the United States are called — however, as Katniss's act of defiance at the end of the last games — her refusal to kill Peeta by threatening to have them both eat poisonous berries, thereby leaving the games without a victor — has lit a spark in the tinderbox of rebellion, and mutinies are breaking out in various districts.

Rather than focusing on the brutality of the games this time we get much more of the brutality of the regime, from the execution of a man for a simple act of defiance to the public whipping of Gale (Liam Hemsworth), the other young man in Katniss's life.

Comprising of six stories ranging from the 1800's to centuries in the future, Cloud Atlas shows how one act of defiance against oppression can inspire a revolution centuries later.

«The solo row houses became more than monuments to dying neighborhoods; they had become an act of defiance,» he said.

Each morning, stepping on the scale was an act of defiance against my own body.

Her act of defiance was small but had large repercussions.

Many women recorded their acts of defiance, waving their headscarves around in busy crowds.

«You made a very brave choice,» Tsipras said in a televised address as jubilant supporters filled Athens» central Syntagma Square to celebrate the act of defiance towards Europe's political and financial establishment.

In an interview on Tuesday, David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, said he did not see the company's decision to serve Chinese search customers from outside China as an act of defiance.

This act of defiance renders the master incapable of asserting his dominance in this relationship.

Yet just as Jeremiah hears God answering the inconsolable Rachel, so does De Vries reveal a strange solace in this act of defiance.

Or that the very act of summoning her husband was an act of defiance, not submission, that could have gotten Esther killed.