" In a Globe and Mail newspaper interview, he added, " If anyone has distorted Gospel passages to rationalize cruelty towards Jews or anyone, it's in defiance of repeated Papal condemnation.

However, Ratbat added a secret weapon to his ranks-the combiner team the Constructicons, in flagrant defiance of treaties banning their use in the civil war as both Autobots and Decepticons splintered.

On the contrary, he added to violence an absurd defiance, and offered an amnesty to the German princes on condition of their retiring within fourteen days into private life.

On those rare occasions when the proclamation authority was used in seeming defiance of local and congressional sentiment, Congress again retaliated.

Support for Kelantan and the local government in defiance of the central government includes the group Kelantan Peoples ' Movement Demanding Petroleum Royalties or Gerakan Menuntut Royalti Petroleum Rakyat Kelantan ( GMR ).

" Poplarism " became a political term associated with large-scale municipal relief for the poor and needy, and also with local defiance of central government.

Sharia in defiance of local common law was imposed to unify tribes.

Up to 15, 000 protesters wearing armbands with radioactivity symbols and carrying the banned red-and-white Byelorussian national flag filed through torrential rain in defiance of a ban by the local authorities.

In the 17th century, it served as a residence of the local mountainous lords – the dukes of Aragvi – whose defiance to the Georgian crown more than once led to invasions and devastation of the town by the royal troops.

Where many local efforts use protests and high-risk defiance of authority, Riverkeeper seeks citizen empowerment in environmental law.

Throughout Scotland, there was widespread discontent and disorder after the supposed conquest, and acts of defiance were directed against local English officials.

Jean-Louis Le Loutre's last act of defiance was to burn the local Cathedral so that it would not fall into the hands of the British.

) She also suggests that the Red Army was indeed given an easy passage, but that this was done by local warlords in defiance of Chiang Kai-shek:

The political controversies of Irish independence came to the Crescent in the early 1920s, and Fr William Hackett established and publically drilled the ' Crescent Volunteers ' in 1918 in defiance of the authorities, which was closely observed by the local Constablary.

Such theorists ( Pepinsky 1978 ; Tift & Sulivan 1980 ; Ferrell 1994 inter alia ) espouse an agenda of defiance of existing hierarchies, encouraging the establishment of systems of decentralised, negotiated community justice in which all members of the local community participate.

The toponym Pkhovi, which may derive from a Georgian root meaning " brave, valiant ", is first attested in a passage from the seventh-century chronicle The Conversion of Kartli which refers to the defiance of local highlanders to Christianizing efforts of the king Mirian III, and St. Nino, a 4th-century apostle of eastern Georgia ( Kartli / Iberia ).

The local airport was used as airbase for offensive operations against Croatia and Bosnia, in direct defiance of NATO's Operation Deny Flight.

I think her husband strongly suspects so, and that's why he called me in on the thing in direct defiance of his confederates and almost certainly without telling them why he was doing so.

On his return from Troy, his vessel was wrecked on the Whirling Rocks (), but he himself escaped upon a rock through the assistance of Poseidon and would have been saved in spite of Athena, but he said that he would escape the dangers of the sea in defiance of the immortals.

It was strongly fortified on every side, bidding defiance to every enemy.

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 ".

She was a Protestant, but kept Catholic symbols ( such as the crucifix ), and downplayed the role of sermons in defiance of a key Protestant belief.

Sylvia Tamale argues that this was done not only in defiance of the council's cooperation with the colonial authorities, but also in protest against its interference with women's decisions about their own rituals.

The modern meaning of the flag was forged in December 1860 when Major Robert Anderson, acting without orders, moved the U. S. garrison from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, in defiance of the power of the new Confederate States of America.

Hitler probably wanted peace with Britain in late 1940, but Prime Minister Winston Churchill, standing alone, was dogged in his defiance.

Nevertheless, as recorded in the Tanakh (" Old Testament " Bible ), in defiance of the Torah's teachings, the patron god YHWH was frequently worshipped in conjunction with other gods such as Baal, Asherah, and El.

Attempting to arrest the prophet for his bold words of defiance, Jeroboam's hand was " dried up ," and the altar before which he stood was rent asunder.

In the Mughal state, therefore, defiance of imperial authority, whether coming from a prince or anyone else aspiring to political power, or a Muslim or a Hindu, was crushed in the name of law and order.

One of the major innovations Gilbert noted was that Machiavelli focused upon the " deliberate purpose of dealing with a new ruler who will need to establish himself in defiance of custom ".

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.

When the Old Guard was surrounded and made its last stand at La Belle Alliance, he supposedly shouted in defiance to a call for their honorable surrender: " The Old Guard dies but does not surrender!

", expressing defiance and transgression of the working class characters ; it was newsworthy when the King and Queen " with the rest of the audience, cocked their thumbs and shouted Oi!

In April 2000 it was reported in the Guardian that " Railtrack is adopting a deliberate ' culture of defiance ' against the rail regulator ".

Pope Clement VII was furious at this defiance, but he could not take decisive action as he was pressured by other monarchs to avoid an irreparable breach with England.

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

Some people feared the Freemasons, believing they were a powerful secret society that was trying to rule the country in defiance of republican principles.

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If the detective insists upon retaining his personal standards, he must now do so in conscious defiance of his society.

Diaphragms were generally unavailable in the United States, so Sanger and others began importing them from Europe, in defiance of United States law.

Even so, China alienated North Korea when they participated in the 1988 Summer Olympics in South Korea in defiance of the North Korean boycott.

But humanists did not go so far as to promote the extra glory of deliberately aiming to establish a new state, in defiance of traditions and laws.

Opponents of this view include revisionist historians and a number of post – Cold War and otherwise dissident Soviet historians including Roy Medvedev, who argues that although " one could list the various measures carried out by Stalin that were actually a continuation of anti-democratic trends and measures implemented under Lenin ... in so many ways, Stalin acted, not in line with Lenin's clear instructions, but in defiance of them ".

According to Muirchu, Logaire was so impressed by Patrick ’ s devotion that, despite his defiance ( or perhaps because of it ), he let him continue his missionary work in Ireland.

To add to the foregoing, an assemblage elected in defiance of law, but claiming to be the legislative body of your State, and so recognized by the Executive of Maryland, was debating the Federal compact.

Historian Geoff Andrews ' explains ‘ it was the role of the shop stewards in organising the Broad Lefts and influencing trade union leaders that was the key rather than organising the rank and file in defiance of leaderships ’ and so the party withdrew from rank-and-file organisations like the Building Workers Charter, and attacked " Trotskyist " tactics at the Pilkington Glass dispute in 1970.

Although British officials, and some historians, described Malcom as acting in defiance of the law, John Phillip Reid argued that Malcom's actions were lawful — so precisely lawful, in fact, that Reid speculated that Malcom may have been acting under the advice of his lawyer, James Otis.

There is a tradition that, to show their defiance, the men of the 2nd Light Infantry dyed their hat feathers red so the Americans would be able to identify them.

Yz at first obeys the command, but is so torn between his duties to his master and his own moral standards that he suffers a breakdown and screaming in defiance and confusion, rockets into the heavens ( presumably forever ) leaving Thunder shocked, horrified and guilt ridden.

The ruling came so late that some Free Festivallers did not know about it, and several hundred attempted to show up in defiance of the ruling.

On the night of May 16, 1948 Prince Abdul Karim Khan, in defiance of his brother, decided to lead a separatist movement against the Pakistan government, so as to preserve his life of privilege as the Khan's governor in Makran.

It is her dangerous cocktail of defiance and vulnerability that makes it all seem so damn real ,” wrote Steve Beebee in Kerrang!

In the story, the Black Guardian punishes the Doctor's defiance by altering history so that the Doctor never left Gallifrey.

Le Loutre's last act of defiance was to burn the cathedral so that it would not fall into the hands of the British.

He also claimed many people voting for Sinn Fein were doing so as an act of defiance.

This means, almost inevitably, that Russia will come to the scene in defence of Serbia and in defiance of Austria, and if so, it is difficult for Germany and France to refrain from lending a hand to one side or the other.

Kill for Love continues the band's penchant for popular-sound defiance that made Chromatics so exciting in the first place.

This act of defiance so startled the Cabinet that it was considered more prudent not to attempt a prosecution and to allow the Bill to remain a dead letter.

But Akbar disregarded adverse weather conditions and so was able to win victories in defiance of the shastras and the seasons.