Iran is already in defiance of repeated Security Council demands that it stop enriching uranium.

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

They're able to choose their actions in conformity with God's will or in defiance of God's will.

他们能够选择遵从上帝的意愿,也能违背上帝的意愿。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The question is, why does Socrates exhibit such proud defiance and independence of the laws in the Apology, and such total, even kind of mouse-like, acquiescence to the laws in the Crito?

问题是，为何苏格拉底一方面展现了自豪的反抗,及独立于法律之外如同《自辩篇》所载，但这种绝对性，却化为鼠辈般，默认了全部的法律，一如《克里托篇》所载？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"That is the conflict between the powers in Honduras and the defiance of the president of rulings by the Supreme Court and rulings by the Congress and those do need to be dealt with,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.03