Sentences with phrase «acts of defiance with»

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

They also illustrated how Pulayas could continue their acts of defiance with outside help.

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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.

PanEm's president Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland), a brutal dictator with a cultured intellectual outward persona, is not pleased with the pair, due to an act of defiance in the Games arena.

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.

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.

In an extended love scene notable for both its hot - blooded sensuality and its intricate, bittersweet play with memory, «120 Beats Per Minute» embraces sex as not just an expression of love or lust, but something more — an act of life - sustaining defiance.

Acting in defiance of norms which with they disagree, they run the risk of reprimand for not following rules.

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.

A self - proclaimed dropout of the art world, Lozano rejected the commerciality of the art scene by committing an act of defiance, in four parts: General Strike Piece, a performance that began in February 1969 as a protest to the banality of the existing artistic atmosphere; Decide to Boycott Women, a twenty - seven year hiatus from contact with her female supporters, including artists, gallerists, and critics, begun in August 1971; Dialogue Piece, an invitation to dialogue that blurred the roles between artist as sender and viewer as receiver.

The compelling moments in the exhibition occur when realizing that most of these women worked — and continue to work — with materials and processes in defiance of a world formed by the Smith - Hughes Act.

«WOMEN dream, dreams which are their life, without which they could not live» — in subdued tones of the earth, from welling sounds of water, with the cadence of breath, Korot echoes the recesses of souls whose refusal to abandon hope or relinquish their task is an act of defiance.

In Friends of the Earth — Les Ami (e) s de la Terre v. Canada (Governor in Council) 2009 FCA 297 [leave to appeal dismissed 2010 CanLII 14720 (S.C.C.)-RSB-, the Federal Court of Appeal let the Canadian government get away with open defiance of a statute of the Parliament of Canada, the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act, 2007 (KPIA).

Children with the following issues: Arguing, violence, dropping out of school, truancy, gang involvement and other poor peer relations, destruction of property, defiance, alcohol and other drug abuse, sexual acting out, runaway threats and behavior, and suicidal threats and attempts.