Even if Taipei remains defiant, Beijing should stop short of unsheathing the PLA sword.
But Tortorella was defiant in his assessment that this wasn't a down year for the club.
The downside of the ridiculous, defiant defense is much less severe than it used to be.
And despite a conciliatory tone at times, he was ultimately resolute and even defiant.
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"Girls get dramatic and overreact, while boys alternate between withdrawing and being defiant, " says Lowry.
Katie has Down syndrome and is happiness personified, but she can also be stubborn and defiant.
No actual thoughts, only feelings: mournfulness, woe, and, finally, a spark of defiant anger.
Signals from the military leadership of the Bosnian Serbs, however, have been more defiant, he said.
But as she comes to accept the loss of the baby she carried, she is defiant.
Police Land-Rovers in fields crammed not long before with defiant Orangemen underlined the new mood.
Undeterred by threats, bans and prison, Magubane's defiant spirit shaped his work in the field.
Are we seeing a feisty, defiant President, sort of like we saw last Friday in Ohio?
Fitzsimons said he would remain defiant if the court decided on the death penalty.
So will serious reflection, with its attendant uncertainty and anxiety, replace all that defiant hedonism?
And that defiant, can-do spirit is what runs through the veins of American history.
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The defiant spirit that got the industry through apartheid took a darker turn in recent years.
He is a small, defiant man with a large prayer mark on his forehead.
The defiant statement from North Korea's Foreign Ministry was issued just hours after the U.N.
But a number of people who've recently spoken to the President say he's defiant, confident.
This may have helped to push North Korea in to its defiant missile show last week.
But only days later, its chief executive, Wayne Lapierre, appeared before cameras as defiant as ever.
Equally, Ms Ephron though she became the model of the defiant single woman was not alone for long.
Others have already won the support of defiant local politicians, such as Agrigento's mayor.
Medvedev remained defiant over Moscow's actions, saying Russia had brought peace to the region.
The BPA Defiant has now been moved to its new home at the RAF Museum in Cosford.
The designer says she likes her clothes to make the wearer feel at once defiant and protected.
Though this was no representative chamber, Lord Scanlon sat as a still-defiant envoy from a vanished world.
"I will act, and now I am acting, " the defiant Morsy said as he wagged his finger.
But despite widespread sanctions, Iranian officials have been publicly defiant and regularly highlight developments in both arenas.
England seemed certain to lose by an innings, but Broad hit the ball so sweetly in a defiant last-wicket stand.
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