Despite prodigious yo-yoing due to scrapes with securities regulators, missed deadlines, and defiance of pandemic-driven health laws, Tesla market capitalization is about $400 billion.
Does Elon Musk even need a PR department?|Adam Lashinsky|October 8, 2020|Fortune
Those who operate in defiance of the state rules could face fines, possibly the loss of their license.
Sacramento Report: State Audit Knocks San Diego Agency’s Use of Vehicle Fees|Voice of San Diego|July 17, 2020|Voice of San Diego
In 2014, California banned school districts from using willful defiance as a reason to suspend young students in kindergarten through third grade, and from expelling any K-12 student for willful defiance alone.
School Leaders Can’t Suspend the Discipline Discussion Any Longer|Will Huntsberry|July 16, 2020|Voice of San Diego
Another 10 slaves threw themselves overboard in a display of defiance at the inhumanity.
The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left Behind|Brin-Jonathan Butler|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In defiance, I held my ticket above my head, which triggered the spitting and chants of “How Dare You!”
Inside the Metropolitan Opera’s Insane Year|Shawn E. Milnes|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She had just shot her arrow at an electric force field, an apparently society-changing act of defiance.
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If I balked at an act or found it difficult to perform, I was “punished” for my defiance (which is the nature of a BDSM scene).
My ‘Kink’ Nightmare: James Franco’s BDSM Porn Documentary ‘Kink’ Only Tells Part of the Story|Aurora Snow|August 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The monkey seemed to be sticking his tongue out at me in defiance.
How I (Digitally) Killed My Twitter Impostor|JoBeth McDaniel|July 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Some thirty others of the National party followed his example of defiance with a similar result.
The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886.|Various
There existed in his victory a remnant of defiance and of combat.
Les Misrables|Victor Hugo
Isaac Chantz demanded of me, in defiance to the gangsters, who were expected to do the talking.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore|Jack London
“I don't know what you mean by likely,” Maria said, impertinently, in her shame and defiance.
By the Light of the Soul|Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
To close the gates, and set the Indians at defiance, seemed no very difficult matter.
The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada|Francis Parkman
British Dictionary definitions for defiance
defiance
/ (dɪˈfaɪəns) /
noun
open or bold resistance to or disregard for authority, opposition, or power