The coalition government failed to placate the Military, however, and in late November it became clear that the government could not enforce its authority when the Military began openly defying its orders.

So the country today reminds me of early 1989, before the Tiananmen protests, or of South Korea and Taiwan in the mid-1980's as citizens began defying the dictatorships in those places.

Starting in the late 1960's, he began defying the censors with works that skewered Israeli mores, subversively mocking its militarist pride, its political leaders and its very self-image.

But the geriatric leadership of Mr. Honecker refused to go along with the Gorbachev program of change and a year ago began defying it.

Noon come and gone, his officers began defying his request to be left alone.

Intermarriage between the well-established Iberian Jews and the newer immigrants from eastern Europe was rare until the period of my story, when a few powerful families began defying tradition.

December 24 - Blacks in Tallahassee, Florida begin defying segregation on city buses.

By late December 1837, the Aboriginal inhabitants of Flinders Island began openly defying Robinson.

The decision comes six months after Seagram began defying the ban by running television and radio spots for several brands in scattered markets.

Five years ago this month, Andrew Cuomo began defying that model.