1.  At the core of this scorn, Wright did not try to make peace Monday, offering only a defiant response and a shrug of his broad shoulders.

2.  But for the moment the challenge has been postponed, leaving Canada alone in its defiant response to the law.

3.  Days later she wrote her piece in the Sunday Independent about how frightened she had been and then laid out a defiant response.

4.  The warning appeared to be a defiant Bosnian Serb response to international pressure to reverse their rejection of an international peace plan for ending the Bosnian war.

5.  But fresh fighting in the north and a defiant response from Saddam suggested the confrontation would escalate.

6.  But British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, who is also the European Union chairman, left Belgrade discouraged with the defiant response.

7.  During a break, Komolowski warned the government will stop talking to the farmers if road blocks continued, provoking a defiant response from radical farm leader Andrzej Lepper.

8.  In a defiant response, Taiwanese Foreign Minister Fredrick Chien vowed to continue the drive for a higher international profile.

9.  In a defiant response, he resigned his seat and sought re-election as a Republican.

10.  The Islamic Resistance Movement HAMAS issued a defiant response to the crackdown saying it would launch even bloodier attacks in its campaign to derail the peace process.