By the seventeenth century, when the Covenanters and Conventiclers found refuge in the upland parishes, Scots was the language they spoke and English the language of their defiant declarations.

Then her defiant declaration.

To me it felt as if accident and design had conspired for a defiant declaration of the power of theater.

Feeling cold sweat beading his forehead, his upper lip, he rose shakily to his feet, the blood thundering in his ears, his mind pulsing with ringing, defiant declarations.

The first song out of her mouth is that defiant declaration of independence, "Some People."

Decoration, an abjectly pejorative dismissal for many, is a very big, somewhat defiant declaration for me.

He was imprisoned in Warwick Castle, where he wrote a defiant declaration and justification of his loyalty to the King.

Your defiant declaration has stirred the resting spirits at Starfleet Command.

"I'm not changing my opinion on it," he added, a defiant declaration that, like his comments to reporters about the surplus and tax cuts, was largely unprompted.

Hannibal Rumbold made his own defiant declaration on the scaffold: