Sentence examples for Being defied from inspiring English sources
verb
To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
His administration was being defied 42 years ago by the miners' union.
Chief Justice Chaudhry remonstrated with the corruption body's prosecutors, clearly angry that his order had being defied.
During the campaign, he indicated that he was in favour of laws being defied if they were bad.
The reason for this show of unity was that the Court's unanimous 1954 decision, in Brown v. Board of Education, ruling that segregated public schooling is inherently unequal was being defied by Governor Orval Faubus, of Arkansas, and the Arkansas State Legislature.
The liberal capitalist order in West Germany was being defied in the late 60's and early 70's by a younger generation whose calls for revolution echoed his own; he no longer felt himself a stranger when back in Berlin or Munich, and he started writing regularly again for German opera houses and orchestras.
Here again, the will of parliament and government is being defied by a tiny, wealthy, anti-democratic clique of proven bullies, whose respect for the law of the land is well summed up in Rupert Murdoch's remarks to Sun journalists, as revealed last week.
Convention has been defied.
Conventions were defied and major novelties devised.
The ravages of time have indeed been defied.
Which isn't to say dread can't be defied.
The imposition of a 6 P.M. curfew, or the way it was defied?
