Sentence examples for be defied by from inspiring English sources

We asked only that the duck be smokier and that physics be defied by standing the mac-and-cheese on its own, without redundantly starchy pastry or ramekins -- impossible, of course -- and fled to the city for the finale.

A future president Trump or Cruz could be defied by his own intelligence chief, after CIA director John Brennan said on Sunday he would not allow members of his agency to carry out torture techniques such as waterboarding.

We didn't need cute Spanish children forming a human pyramid to explain how gravity can be defied by geometry nor heart-in-mouth Himalayan honey-harvesting to demonstrate a bee's instinctive hexagonal honeycombing – but we got them both, and how delightful they were.

In a developing country such as ours, establishing exclusive anaesthesia clinics may be defied by cost factor.

Tribal conventions were defied by a shared chorus of: "There's only one Bobby Robson".

And it is as such that he has been defied by liberals.

That's just a matter of expectation that has also been defied by groups like Hot Chip.

The call for peaceful demonstration from organisers was defied by a small group who clashed with riot officers near the Place de la Republique.

In 2004 he tried to steal the presidential election, but was defied by mass protests that instead swept his opponents, Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko, to power.

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.

Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual.