As quoted from a Byzantine essay: " charged into the sea of the enemy soldiers, hitting left and right in a final act of defiance.

This act was in defiance of a prediction by Tiberius's soothsayer Thrasyllus of Mendes that Caligula had " no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae ".

During the English Civil War, the followers of Oliver Cromwell decided to crop their hair close to their head, as an act of defiance to the curls and ringlets of the king's men.

The four man team on Jan Mayen stayed at their posts and in an act of defiance began sending their weather reports to the United Kingdom instead of Norway.

The American scholar of religious studies Michael F. Strmiska argued that the modern adoption of the term " Pagan " was " a deliberate act of defiance " against traditional, Christian-dominated society, comparing it to the adoption of the surname " X " amongst African-Americans or the term " queer " amongst LGBT people.

Stanley Henning proposes that the Epitaphs identification of the internal martial arts with the Taoism indigenous to China and of the external martial arts with the foreign Buddhism of Shaolin — and the Manchu Qing Dynasty to which Huang Zongxi was opposed — was an act of political defiance rather than one of technical classification.

Parks ' act of defiance and the Montgomery Bus Boycott became important symbols of the modern Civil Rights Movement.

It was originally sung as a church hymn but later became an act of political defiance against the apartheid government.

The first century Jewish interpretation found in Flavius Josephus explains the construction of the tower as a hubristic act of defiance against God ordered by the arrogant tyrant Nimrod.

Their first act of defiance, initiated by Kieran Nugent was to refuse to wear the prison uniforms, stating that convicted criminals, and not political prisoners, wear uniforms.

In one final act of defiance, he did not attend the ceremony and opted instead to send son Buddy Dean Jennings.

This act of defiance sealed the fate of yet another of the Batavian regimes.

Keitel's defense of List was his last act of defiance to Hitler ; he never again challenged Hitler's orders.

Sticking one's tongue out at someone is considered a childish gesture of rudeness and / or defiance in many countries ; the act may also have sexual connotations, depending on the way in which it is done.

In an act of defiance, the women wore outfits with national symbols while setting the record.

Many saw it as an open act of courage, and the Prime Minister's defiance impressed the electorate and contributed to his Liberal Party winning a significant majority the next day.

The first newspaper to openly publish the musical notation and lyric of " Indonesia Raya " — an act of defiance towards the Dutch authorities — was the Chinese Indonesian weekly Sin Po.

While distracted, Juliet performs one last act of defiance against her father and electrocutes him.

It has been suggested that the test firing of missiles is an act of defiance against the United States national holiday, Independence Day.

Based on these resolves, a popular legend has it that the citizens held their own " tea party " on the Chester River, in an act of colonial defiance.

A prison riot is a type of large scale, temporary act of concerted defiance or disorder by a group of prisoners against the prison administrators, prison officers, or other groups of prisoners, often to express a grievance, in an attempt to force change or an attempt to escape the prison.

Rather than wait to be arrested, they boldly turned themselves in as an act of defiance.

In 1972, the logo of Richard Nixon's reelection campaign posters were subvertised with two x's in Nixon's name ( as in the Exxon logo ) to suggest the corporate ownership of the Republican party, the spoof T-shirt ; but it is also the mass act of defiance of a street party.

Juries continued, even in non-criminal cases, to act in defiance of the crown.

However, the episode " Free For All " reveals that he was required to eliminate sugar from his diet " on medical advice " ( although he intentionally drops sugar cubes in his tea in " The Chimes of Big Ben " as an act of defiance ).

The first figure, which represents Eurydice in flames and smoke, in the act of leaving Hades, was completed towards the close of his sixteenth year.

In a situation, when he has justification to assume, that a given person committed or is attempting to commit an act regulated by the convention, he can apply towards that person “ reasonable measures ” including restraint, under a condition that they do not break the rules enumerated in Article 6, paragraph 1 of the Tokyo Convention.

# Lack of obligation towards the signing countries of extradition of the offender committing an act against convention to the country where the aircraft is registered in order to judge one.

They thought he did not act aggressively enough towards the Pan-Serb cause.

Homosexuality, prostitution, concubinage, adultery and coitus with pregnant women should all be avoided as they will not act towards the generation of legitimate offspring.

For example, someone who acts cruelly towards other people is, by that act, defined as a cruel person.

The final escalation towards war began in early January 1918, as each military or political act of the Reds or the Whites resulted in a corresponding counteraction by their opponents.

In the greenhouse effect, rather than retaining ( sensible ) heat by physically preventing movement of the air, greenhouse gases act to warm the Earth by re-radiating some of the energy back towards the surface.

On July 27, 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion in China, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany gave the order to act ruthlessly towards the rebels: " Mercy will not be shown, prisoners will not be taken.

The freedom that Kant exposed is here a strong burden, for the freedom to act towards objects is ultimately useless, and the practical application of Kant's ideas proves to be bitterly rejected.

* Phenolate anions ( deriving from phenols by the loss of H < sup >+</ sup >) can act as ligands towards metal cations.

This posed a massive threat towards Bangkok, as it could no longer rely on Cambodia to act as a buffer state.

In 1823, Monroe introduced the Monroe Doctrine in the State of the Union Address, declaring that any European attempts to recolonize the Americas would be considered a hostile act towards the United States.

* December 2 – James Monroe first introduces the Monroe Doctrine in the State of the Union Address, declaring that any European attempts to recolonize the Americas would be considered a hostile act towards the United States.

Powell's speeches and TV interviews throughout his political life displayed a suspicion towards " the Establishment " in general, and by the 1980s there was a regular expectation that he would make some sort of speech or act in a way designed to upset the government and ensure he would not be offered a life peerage ( and thus be transferred to the House of Lords ), which, some believe, had not any intention of accepting so long as Edward Heath sat in the Commons.

The concept of “ reciprocal altruism ”, as introduced by Trivers, suggests that altruism, defined as an act of helping someone else although incurring some cost for this act, could have evolved since it might be beneficial to incur this cost if there is a chance of being in a reverse situation where the person whom I helped before may perform an altruistic act towards me.

While broadly popular among the general public, Chamberlain's policy towards Hitler was the subject of some opposition in the House of Commons, which led historian John Grigg to describe the King's behaviour in associating himself so prominently with a politician as " the most unconstitutional act by a British sovereign in the present century ".

While broadly popular among the general public, Chamberlain's policy towards Hitler was the subject of some opposition in the House of Commons, which led historian John Grigg to describe the King's behaviour in associating himself so prominently with a politician as " the most unconstitutional act by a British sovereign in the present century ".

A single act of bowling the ball towards the batsman is called a ball or a delivery.

Michael Kaminski, in The Secret History of Star Wars, offers evidence that issues in Anakin's fall to the dark side prompted Lucas to make massive story changes, first revising the opening sequence of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith to have Palpatine kidnapped and his apprentice, Count Dooku, murdered by Anakin as the first act in the latter's turn towards the dark side.

Sheila imagines that Eva laughed at her and did not act respectfully towards her and so “ punishes ” her by having her fired.

A " high " on the usual barometric pressure map would then act as a source ( arrows pointing away ), and a " low " would be a sink ( arrows pointing towards ), since air tends to move from high pressure areas to low pressure areas.

Being created at a time where there was only telephones and radio the act had very specific rules towards regulation in these markets.