But yesterday the club issued a defiant defense of its right to set its own membership policy.

Salvation comes through sacrifice," he added in defiant defense.

But Mr. Bush also plans to make what some of his critics may interpret as a defiant defense of the need to use military force in some circumstances.

If your reaction to that statement is defiant defense that business is science, you have never been nor likely will ever be a scientist.

This was Buchanan country, and Buchanan himself had just roused the crowd with a defiant defense of his Houston speech.

In the final set, Yzaga piled up a 5-2 lead before Sampras mounted one last defiant defense of his title.

Short increased the tension by sailing into whirlwind attacks and Kasparov lifted it a step further by his provocative, defiant defenses.

First, let me speak up in defiant defense of Rex, and Rexissimo.

The defiant defenses of some whites can still chill.

According to Xenophon's story, Socrates purposefully gave a defiant defense to the jury because "he believed he would be better off dead".