It was originally sung as a church hymn but later became an act of political defiance against the apartheid government.

It played a key role in collective political defiance of the Bourbon restoration monarchy in 1815-30.

They are being tried for political defiance.

For the West, as for the Poles, there was a time for obstinate political defiance.

The Cardinal encourages morality without open political defiance, a course that has earned him many enemies.

Pro-democracy groups, in response, have developed a strategy of "political defiance" to challenge the military junta's repressive rule.

Our most recent was held in August, just as the junta started making new arrests of activists for "political defiance."

The picture captures not the public display of political defiance, but its root: the private despair that is the outcome of war.

Others said it could be a statement of political defiance, as talks take place with the United States.

Wearing it became an act of religious and political defiance, and a sign of support for the respective ethnic nationalism.