Sentence examples for apparent defiance from inspiring English sources

Its profits have kept growing, in apparent defiance of any law of economic gravity.

Levitation, rising of a human body off the ground, in apparent defiance of the law of gravity.

Later, in a gesture of apparent defiance, all nine riders put the black jerseys back on for the podium ceremony.

Horrifying images of Syrian children wounded by suspected Russian air strikes have emerged, fuelling growing international anger at Moscow's pounding of civilians in apparent defiance of international law.

The work, created in 1985, consists of a water-filled glass tank, at the center of which is a Spalding basketball, in apparent defiance of gravity and buoyancy.

But he also said that the administration should have gone to Congress for authorization from the outset rather than acting in apparent defiance of a 1978 law.

He cited Trump's apparent "brazen defiance" of the foreign emoluments clause of the Constitution, which bars a president from receiving foreign funds.

IN AN apparent act of defiance, Mother Nature decided to dump snow across the mid-west on April 7th just a day before a group of 13 scientists issued an ominous prophecy about global warming and the Great Lakes.

La Marseillaise is expected to be heard as an apparent act of defiance and show of unity following Friday's devastating terror attacks in Paris which killed 129 people.

Rebel leaders in eastern Ukraine say they will hold elections on 2 November, in an apparent show of defiance towards the government in Kiev.

The Secret Service also used a robot to inspect the package thrown in an apparent act of defiance meant to echo the rebellion of the Boston Tea Party.