Sentence examples for So defying from inspiring English sources

So defying State Department warnings, Mr. Berg, 26, traveled to Iraq late last year in search of work for his small company, which builds and maintains communication towers and is based in Pennsylvania.

But he has so far refused to do so, defying decades of political precedent.

To do so defies the reality of the dancing, human-size bird, a regrettable shock from which people might never heal.

The regular emergence of young bands who think that imitating John, Paul, George and Ringo is an unconventional move so defies logic that it must signify a biological trait.

Or is it just that musical evolution is the result of the idiosyncratic behavior of composers and so defies more general characterization?

From "Rebel Without a Cause" to "A Thousand Clowns," men who knew who they were and weren't afraid to say so defied conformity.

Doing so defies lessons from the Vietnam War, where the American military's fixation on body counts and winning a war by "attrition" was ruled as an ineffective way to measure progress.

But then there are points where what we're presented with so defies logic, physics, or natural human behavior that the mind rebels.

But he is perhaps the first golfer to so defy expectations on such a grand scale.

Stoke were so impressive, defying the stereotype that they are a dour, unadventurous proposition.

Mr. Wang, a soft-spoken man, was not entirely able to articulate why he was so wantonly defying the authorities.