Those who defied the Puritans by persistently returning to their jurisdictions risked capital punishment, a penalty imposed on the Boston martyrs, four Quakers, between 1659 and 1661.

Realists and Impressionists also defied the placement of still-life and landscape at the bottom of the hierarchy of genres.

Last man out for 49 in a total of 116 in the first innings, he defied a pitch that had begun to seam and swing after a shower and cloud cover as Australia narrowly avoided the follow on.

In the General Sherman incident, Korean forces attacked a U. S. gunboat sent to negotiate a trade treaty and killed its crew, after fire from both sides because it defied instructions from Korean officials.

Both Time and Life magazines did stories on Nanty Glo as their prime exhibit for their coverage of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's taking control of the nation's coal mines after mine workers defied a Congressional law by going on strike at the height of World War Two.

In the end the garrison were compelled to surrender, after which it was found that only sixty men had defied the whole English army for a considerable period.

However, he became disillusioned with fascism and repeatedly defied the Italian dictator after the latter's ascent to power in 1922.

At the conference of the Justices two days after oral argument, Justice Souter defied expectations, joining Justices O ' Connor, Stevens, and Blackmun, who had likewise refused to do so three years earlier in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services.

Although Wright had been expelled from the UVF, threatened with execution and an order to leave Northern Ireland, which he defied, the feud was largely contained during his life and the two major eruptions came after his death.

Arnold had no intention of attending West Point ( he was preparing to attend Bucknell University and enter the Baptist ministry ) but took the entrance examination after his older brother Thomas defied their father and refused to do so, and placed second on the list.

Saratov and Samara were captured, but Simbirsk defied all efforts, and after two bloody encounters close at hand on the banks of the Sviyaga River ( October 1 and 4 ), Razin was ultimately routed by the army of Yuri Baryatinsky and fled down the Volga, leaving the bulk of his followers to be extirpated by the victors.

Later, seeking after metals, Maeglin defied Turgon's order to stay within the mountains, and was captured by Orcs and brought to Angband.

When Moloch defied Asmodeus after the Reckoning of Hell, the former was exiled to Avernus, while rulership of the Sixth was passed on to Moloch's leman, Malagard the Hag Countess.

Shortly after the accession of Pope Zachary in 741, Liutprand planned to campaign against the Lombard Duchy of Spoleto, which had defied him.

In 49 BC, the last Republican civil war was initiated after Julius Caesar defied senatorial orders to disband his army following the conclusion of hostilities in Gaul.

Shortly after, a brave sailor, identified as Hannibal the Rhodian openly defied the Roman fleet by sailing around the fleet in order to spy on the town and relay the news of the goings on inside of Lilybaeum to the Carthaginian Senate and the Carthaginian commander at the battle, Ad Herbal.

Eventually, he defied his party by becoming Minister of the Interior after December of that year, in the short-lived Octavian Goga cabinet formed by the National Christians, being immediately expelled from the PNŢ.

The story tells that, after subduing Meng Huo, Zhuge Liang led the army back to Shu, but met a swift-flowing river which defied all attempts to cross it.

Albert Smythe wanted his son to attend university after grade 12 but Smythe defied his father, bolting at age 17 to become a homesteader on in Clute Township, near Cochrane, Ontario.

They were the bookies ', and many of the rugby pundits ' odds-on-favourites to go straight back down but defied the odds to stay in the Premiership for another season, finishing ninth in the league, after wins against teams including Harlequins, Leeds, a historic victory against Premiership Champions London Wasps and Northampton in a ' winner takes all ' end of season finale, which they won 21 – 19.

In 1986 and 1987, Emery defied Ontario's Sunday shopping laws, finally facing eight charges after opening for eight Sundays in a row.

Two years after coming to office in 1933, Hitler blatantly defied the terms of the treaty when he announced that Germany would adopt military conscription and would no longer adhere to the restrictions on the size of the Reichswehr as set out in Versailles.

According to one legend, the ghost of Wild Edric, a Saxon earl who held lands that were confiscated after 1066 and successfully defied the Normans, for a time at least, rides the hills whenever England is threatened by invasion.

She is too much of a perfectionist to love her son after he has defied her in such a manner, and is no longer welcome in the House of al Ghul ..

He defied convention in April 2008, when he became the first MP to publicly call for the Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin to be fired after his failure to ensure greater transparency as to how the House of Commons is run.

His style of play routinely resulted in injuries and scars ; he twice defied expectations, returning to the game after suffering a ruptured disc in his back and later a fractured skull.

The Northwest Passage represented a new route to the established trading nations of Asia, as in 1493 to defuse trade disputes, Pope Alexander VI split the discovered world in two between Spain and Portugal ; thus France, the Netherlands, and England were left without a sea route to Asia, either via Africa or South America, unless their ships defied the ban and explored such waters regardless ( they did, and the ban became unenforceable ).

Their decision was influenced in part by the fact that most of the claimants had large estates in England and, therefore, would have lost them if they had defied the English king.

Following mutual atrocities of the Oddi and the Baglioni families, power was at last concentrated in the Baglioni, who, though they had no legal position, defied all other authority, though their bloody internal squabbles culminated in a massacre, 14 July 1500.

The other diplomats feared they also would be murdered if they left the legation quarter and they defied the Chinese order to leave.

Their camps were a bastion of the traditional workplace as they defied modern rationalized management, and built a culture around masculinity.

' Here is our answer: We refuse to allow you to speak for all the American people ... We refuse to be party to these wars and we repudiate any inference that they are being waged in our name or for our welfare ..." It indicates as inspiration "... Israeli reservists who, at great personal risk, declare ' there IS a limit ' and refuse to serve in the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza ", the abolitionists, and " those who defied the Vietnam war " and concludes, " we will resist the machinery of war and repression and rally others to do everything possible to stop it.

Members of the National Guard followed the march, and when Lafayette called this march nonsense, the National Guard's men openly defied his power and according to some sources, they said " We are going with you, or over you ", then Lafayette reluctantly led the National Guard army to Versailles.

The samurai had followed the precepts of bushido by avenging the death of their lord ; but they had also defied the shogunate authority by exacting revenge, which had been prohibited.

At the top of the animals are wild beasts ( such as lions ), which were seen as superior as they defied training and domestication.

As the adoption of the term in America coincided with a fashion among teenage girls in the early 1920s for wearing unbuckled galoshes a widespread false etymology held that they were called " flappers " because they flapped when they walked, as they wore their overshoes or galoshes unfastened, showing that they defied convention in a manner similar to the 21st century fad for untied shoelaces.

The team defied Barnett by sneaking out of the state and playing the game, which they lost to the eventual national champions.

" During a discussion with an interviewer from Time magazine, Westmoreland defied the communists to launch an attack: " I hope they try something, because we are looking for a fight.

Cities were destroyed and their inhabitants slaughtered if they defied Mongol orders.

Because the outlaw had defied civil society, that society was quit of any obligations to the outlaw — outlaws had no civil rights and could not sue in any court on any cause of action, though they were themselves personally liable.

The philentomas were traditionally placed with the Muscicapidae ( flycatchers ) when these were still used as a " wastebin taxon ", largely as an expedient because these enigmatic birds have long defied ornithologists as regards their systematic placement ; they remain little-studied and their placement here is just as provisional as it was in the Muscicapidae but even if they do not really belong here, they are at least not very distant to the Prionopidae.

In July John Tyndall with Johann Joseph Bennen and another guide overcame most of the difficulties of the ridge that seemed so formidable from below and successfully reached the main shoulder ; but at a point not very far below the summit they were stopped by a deep cleft that defied their utmost efforts.