5 Sentences With "defying the authorities"

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Defying the authorities in the polling booth is too big of a risk.
PARIS — A French farmer who smuggled African migrants to safety, defying the authorities in an effort that his supporters likened to the Underground Railroad, was essentially given a slap on the wrist by a court on Friday.
Gorbachev continued to press for greater liberalisation. On December 23, 1986, the most prominent Soviet dissident, Andrei Sakharov, returned to Moscow shortly after receiving a personal telephone call from Gorbachev telling him that after almost seven years his internal exile for defying the authorities was over.
Then he went to Bosnia to fight the Ottoman occupiers and was captured. He was subsequently loaded with irons and sent a prisoner to a Turkish goal at Sarajevo. For the next two years, he was kept in close confinement. When he was released he was famous for defying the authorities.
This new location also happened to be next door to the Park Theatre, a well established white theatre. A controversy ensued among the white theatre patrons, who claimed that the African Theatre patrons were too riotous of character, and as a result the police would eventually mandate that the African Theatre announce their last performance. Defying the authorities, the theatre continued to put on nightly performances. Despite its best efforts, however, the theatre was eventually forced to return to the prior location on Mercer Street.

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