Sentence examples for at defying from inspiring English sources

Besides, Italian cities, with their ancient identities, are adept at defying national trends.

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"The bill is absolutely a partisan bill aimed at defying the will of the voters, giving Republican presidential candidates most of Virginia's electoral votes, regardless of who carries the state," he said.

They wrote, painted, put on theatrical shows, sang like angels and ran their own communities as competently as any male so competently that if any bishop tried to saddle them with rules they did not like, they had a good go at defying him.Nor were convents dreary places.

The question here, then, is quite how Disney plans to follow up Ford's fifth outing in the role, when it's patently obvious that the possibility of successfully mimicking Star Wars' so-far extraordinarily slick saga-building tactics is running at odds even Han Solo might balk at defying.

Mr. Solis is particularly good at defying the stereotype of the blue-collar character with macho colors; he makes us see that the literal-mindedness of such a man is not impenetrable, that he is capable of appreciating the odd, ambiguous and emotional strains of a person from a different background.

"Instead of which, there is this assortment of slides, some of them welcome, others not at all, defying chronology, refusing structure".

Only women protested at first, defying the ban on demonstrations during the state of war declared shortly after the NATO bombing began.

Consumer prices were unchanged in July from June, keeping the annual rate at 1.8% – defying analysts' forecasts of a fall to 1.5% – government figures showed this morning.

Figures from the Department of Labor also showed wage growth slowed and the unemployment rate remained steady at 4.9%, defying expectations for it to edge down in August.

He has massive hands allowing him to wrap the ball up and can pass it at gravity defying angles".