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• r  in a rebellious manner

• Wayne State University is defiantly building a modern campus right in the heart of the city.
• The attack killed four al-Qaeda members but not al-Zawahiri, who appeared on videotape two weeks later, taunting President Bush and defiantly proclaiming himself alive.
• Instead of slinking away, she has hired a lawyer and defiantly vows to continue singing "if a single fan wants me to.

• rebelliously
• contumaciously

News & Articles

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• Al-Qaida's Iraq head defies boss over Syria fight
  BAGHDAD (AP) — The leader of al-Qaida's Iraq arm defiantly rejected an order from the terror network's central command to stop claiming control over the organization's Syria affiliate, according to a message purportedly from him that was posted online Saturday.
  June 15, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Al-Qaida's Iraq head refuses to scrap Syria merger
  BAGHDAD (AP) — The leader of al-Qaida's Iraq arm defiantly rejected an order from the terror network's global command to scrap a merger with the organization's Syria affiliate, according to a message purporting to be from him that was posted online Saturday.
  June 15, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Defiance toward U.S. help of rebels
  In this government stronghold city, Syrians moved with an air of confidence Friday, defiantly dismissive of how the United States will raise the stakes of the country's bloody two-year civil war by stepping up support to the rebels.
  June 15, 2013 - CNN

Quotes

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• Asif Ali Zardari in San Jose Mercury News
  Asked by a student whether Pakistan was prepared to say it would not use a nuclear weapon first, Zardari said: "Most defiantly, I am against nuclear warfare altogether," he said.
• Charlie Weis in SportingNews.com
  I think it's out of ignorance -- and by ignorance I mean lack of knowledge,Weis said. "I don't think he was defiantly trying to get himself into trouble with the law."
• James Sherley in Bizjournals.com
  I will either see the Provost resign and my hard-earned tenure granted at MIT, or I will die defiantly right outside his office,Sherley wrote in a letter to faculty Dec. 22. "This is the strength of my conviction that racism in American...