Sentence examples for a position to defy from inspiring English sources

We are in a position to defy those odds".

Employers generally pay much less into these than they do into DB schemes.If any one British company seemed to be in a position to defy this trend and maintain final-salary pensions, it was BP.

But in an unusual setting of expectations, senior White House officials said that the Republican Party was in a position to defy historic trends and increase the party's margin in the House.

Mr. Gillis said the fact that the Hong Kong firm was acting as Standard Water's main auditor meant it was in a difficult position to defy the securities commission's request.

Desperate to buy time for the new nation to attain a position from which to defy Old World powers, Washington wanted above all to stay out of Europe's murderous quarrels.

Pain, negative emotion, a warning not to defy authority.

NEVER decide to become a Satanist just to defy your parents or "be cool".

Since momentarily drifting out of the top 10 in the second week of August, Despicable Me 2 has put on a strong run of chart positions that consistently seem to defy gravity: back up to 10th place, then two weeks at ninth and now up to eighth.

Some of these members occupy key committee positions and are therefore reluctant to defy a House leadership with which they must continually bargain.

To watch: A demonstration of "quantum levitation," in which a floating disc appears to defy physics.

It is testament to the depth of a crisis which continues to defy solution.