| Nkosi explained that Sisulu was the invisible power behind Mandela's successful defiance of the oppressive apartheid regime. |
| Despite initial defiance, the travellers appear to have left of their own accord. |
| Twenty-five thousand people, armed to the teeth, were ranging the city in utter and ruthless defiance of law and righteousness. |
| This defiance is surely what appealed to the Glasgow students who voted him rector. |
| This final act of defiance precipitated a lockdown of the entire Texas state prison system. |
| Sin is the estrangement between God and humans instigated by human defiance or abnegation. |
