Commenting on the defiant mood of the traders, an editorial in Dawn urged everybody to find middle ground.

By the time they had docked at Hamburg, many of the refugees were in a defiant mood.

John de Robeck was very worried by the defiant mood of the Ottoman parliament.

Franco was therefore in defiant mood in mid-1947.

The two leaders arrived in defiant moods.

When he saw that they all held their peace and treated him with scorn, he left the court in defiant mood.

That summed up the defiant mood here in Belgrade.

But Kasparov, in a defiant mood yesterday, risked losing to play for a win.

And at the attack site, a shopkeeper's sign, plastered over a display window shattered by the missile blast, illustrated the a confident, defiant mood.

The defiant mood is reinforced by Mr. Bush's status as the first president in more than a century to gain office while losing the popular vote.