Sentences with phrase «defiant response»
A "defiant response" refers to the act of responding to something or someone in a bold and rebellious manner. It can involve openly resisting or challenging authority, rules, or expectations. Full definition
This set off an angry and defiant response on Tuesday from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who framed the plan as a kind of reprise of the famed «Ford to City: Drop Dead» moment from the 1970s, calling it «a targeted war» on his state.
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«A different life,» comes the bitterly defiant response.
While Lanthimos appears intent on growing only more alienating over time, as if in defiant response to his harshest critics, viewers with a healthy funny bone and a sadistic side will tear this open like a Christmas present.
Chancellor George Osborne has offered a defiant response to German and American warnings about a potential British exit from the EU.
Wright's defiant response — to quit Labour but refuse to quit as crime commissioner — means the focus could continue to be away from the fundamental need for reform, Starmer suggested.
«Let me reach for a cigarette first of all in defiant response to that,» he quipped in a recent Guardian interview when asked what he thought of his nickname of «inaction man» in contrast to the swashbuckling Paddy Ashdown.
What both states have in common are defiant responses to legislative measures that would limit collective bargaining rights for state workers.
The records, we feel, are very pertinent and important to governmental purposes and this act in fact would violate FOIL and the public officer's law,» said Castorina at a press conference outside the Richmond County Courthouse, recalling Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito's defiant response to the threat of legal action last week.
Directed by Johanna Schwartz (Mysterious Science: Rebuilding Stonehenge), They Will Have to Kill Us First is a documentary which chronicles some of Mali's greatest artists» defiant response to the attempted censorship.
Moreover, we didn't erect boundaries between the objects» stories, so that, for instance, Laura's ladle spoke in defiant response to Patrick's (below).
There were no students on cell phones, no defiant responses, no apathetic stares.
The comments mark a defiant response to the vague warnings made by US officials that have effectively crippled Huawei's ability to get its phones in front of consumers.