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Перевод: defiance

[существительное]
вызывающее поведение; неповиновение; открытое неповиновение; полное пренебрежение; вызов

Тезаурус:

1. It could keep watch on military activity in the Antarctic on nuclear testing in defiance of the partial test-ban treaty and on the stockpiling of toxins.
2. What political integration still remained had now for the most part little to do with Nazi idealism or belief in the genius of the Fhrer, but in the common fear of the consequences of defeat and hatred of the enemy coupled with reserves of patriotic defiance.
3. Having attempted, unsuccesfully, to discourage further arrivals by imposing increasingly harsh regimes in its holding-camps, Hong Kong now wants Britain to authorise compulsory repatriation, in defiance of humanitarian objections from the United States.
4. Sculpted from white plaster like the students' statue, the new monument has been erected on the spot where the democracy movement's impertinent icon of defiance stood until the People's Liberation Army arrived on 4 June.
5. Curiously, this act of defiance on Morrissey's behalf was, according to the following week's NME , " in the hands of lawyers."
6. Swedish courts will soon decide whether a bank is within its rights in handing over details of the finances of their clients to the local tax authorities, in defiance of a ban imposed by the data protection committee.
7. There is no suggestion in the play that Henry's defiance might be hollow.
8. I could not read the name but underneath, with a defiance which I found sympathetic, somebody else had written:
9. She seems to thrive on heretical statements and swimming against the tide: "I look at what the cosmetic trade is doing and walk in the opposite direction," she declares with the kind of outspoken defiance that has made her a retailing legend in the decade it took her to turn The Body Shop into a worldwide phenomenon.
10. For a group of young nuns to challenge the full authority of the Chinese state, visibly expressed by the tin-hatted martial-law troops standing guard only a hundred metres away, is an act of calculated defiance.
11. Until February of 1982, the Beit Azem museum in the Syrian city of Hama contained dozens of torn and faded grey photographs of young Sunni militiamen who had fought the French, who had in some cases been hanged for their acts of defiance.
12. For the West, as for the Poles, there was a time for obstinate political defiance.
13. She said it with an almost questioning tone, as though listening to the sound of her own defiance to gauge how real it was.