Sentences with phrase «act of defiance at»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Yet the attempts made to nullify the Supreme Court decision even at the cost of eliminating the public schools and passing acts of open defiance in state legislatures, to say nothing of rioting and violence and the nonviolent but intimidating acts of white citizens» councils, indicate how long a road there is yet to travel.

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 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.

That will secure that your House of Commons for the time being, is always either fresh from the polls which gave it authority, or - and this is an equally effective check upon acting in defiance of the popular will - it is looking forward to the polls at which it will have to render an account of its stewardship.»

For Mana, showing up for practice and competing in the meet are acts of open defiance, and Ariki isn't the kind of character you want to make angry, which pulls the openly conflicted Gen into the center of a potentially violent situation — one that feels like something out of a Paul Schrader movie (say, Travis Bickle's foolhardy attempt to liberate Iris at the end of «Taxi Driver») rather than the sort of climax audiences might anticipate from this otherwise Disney - appropriate inspirational drama.

However, this simple act of courage and defiance will set in motion events that put Afshin's life at risk.

Cage and Fonda have their appeal, despite the fact that the contrivances in the script by Jane Anderson (How to Make an American Quilt, The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio) stretch their ability to act natural at times.

The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is itself an act of defiance.

7 At 11:58 p.m., he settled on a last act of showmanship, creating the Australian wife of the Nawab of Palanpur a highness, in defiance of Indian caste customs and British policy.

The Kandy House is the former home of a Sri Lankan aristocrat who committed an act of «decadent defiance» by building himself a palatial villa using roof tiles, which at the time were decreed only for royal residences.

Thursday night at Anna Zorina Gallery, Nadine Faraj's solo show celebrates going topless as an act of political defiance, and Friday Robin Kang's weavings at OUTLET demonstrate that textiles are still relevant to tech.

For instance, Shahzia Sikander, born in Pakistan in 1969 and educated at the National College of Arts in Lahore and at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, decided to learn the traditional techniques of Persian and Indian miniature painting as an act of defiance, because miniature painting was scorned by her teachers and peers at home.

The white washing, itself resembling an act of defiance as it was carried out (see video below), symbolically reads as the erasure of the Black male, the silencing of a community and the public at - large, and the specter of the criminal justice system.

I think they could be recruited into a mass act of defiance against the BBC telly tax or, if that is too dangerous, against the few at the head of the BBC.

(AP Photo / Evan Vucci) The election of global warming doubter Donald Trump came at a time when the planet was just poised to start collectively acting on the problem — leading to confusion and even defiance at a recent global climate change meeting in Marrakech, Morocco.

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