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- A raised, clenched fist is used as a gesture of defiance by a number of groups. It is usually considered to be hostile, yet without any sexual, scatological, or notionally offensive connotations.
- Then, in a last gesture of defiance against Rassilon's rule, he committed suicide by throwing himself into the Looms, mixing his genetic material into the banks.
- Dawdon Miners returned to work behind their banner and promptly marched back out as a gesture of defiance.
- (After the Munich Agreement Gajda, as a gesture of defiance, returned all French and British honors and medals.) In 1939 he was rehabilitated and restored to the rank of General.
- Occasionally the objects of the paper's scorn retaliated with violence, including an incident in which a Paris mob publicly burned copies of "Les Actes" as a gesture of defiance.
- The move was widely interpreted as a symbolic gesture of defiance towards Germany and its role in the Greek government-debt crisis.
- The Parliament emulated some of the more bizarre traditions, such as giving a First Reading to the Outlawries Bill immediately after the Speech from the Throne as a token gesture of defiance of Royal authority.
- In March 1693/94, John Dryden dedicated his new play "Love Triumphant" to Salisbury. His intention was probably to make a gesture of defiance to the new government, of which Dryden disapproved.
- The Ukrainian Postal Service in April 2022 issued a stamp showing a Ukrainian soldier showing the finger (an offensive gesture of defiance) to the Russian ship "Moskva".
- It is still pointing northward in a symbolic gesture of defiance against the North it was built to fight.
- Both these acts were probably intended as a gesture of defiance against Charlemagne—until this time only the Lombard kings had enacted laws.
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