Although white inhabitants were generally happy with the Republic, united in their support of Verwoerd, the blacks defiantly rejected the move.

Iran defiantly rejected the pressure.

The meeting came only a day after Mr. Mugabe defiantly rejected calls to crack down on the squatters.

We might imagine a young person very defiantly rejecting the family, taking drugs and living with someone.

King Ferdinand defiantly rejected Papal control, the Inquisition becoming thereafter a tool of the monarchy, rather than the church.

He said Mr. Chun defiantly rejected suggestions that he apply for bail.

They grow up and defiantly reject a diet of rice cereal and strained peaches.

But on Wednesday, the upper house of Parliament, which under the Constitution has to vote on such a resignation, defiantly rejected it.

But then he defiantly rejected suggestions that he should resign or that there was friction between his office and the AFI.

There is a bold urban underground of young people, most of them too young to remember pre-revolutionary days, who defiantly reject the strictures imposed on them.