Sentence examples for before defying from inspiring English sources

When Pérez's shot was deflected, a twisting, turning Joselu nutmegged Alfie Mawson before defying Fabianski from a tight angle.

"No other British bird has come so close to the brink of extinction before defying all the odds to flourish in our modern landscape.

"My story is your story," she told the girls, talking about growing up a black, working-class woman, before defying the odds and going to Harvard.

After singing in shaabi groups as a teenager, he earned a degree in communications before defying his parents to go back into music.

He had endured a difficult summer against Pakistan before defying his critics with a hundred at The Oval, and was out twice cheaply in the first Ashes warm-up match against Western Australia.

He would answer them fairly emphatically, steadying the ship to steer his team to second place in the Premier League, before defying all expectation by winning it the following season and reaching the Champions League semi-finals.

From June 1944, Tallboy (and in the latter stages of the war the even larger Grand Slam) was used against an array of targets which had before defied the allies.

Brown once before defied conventional wisdom, undoing some of the mess left behind by a film actor-turned-Republican governor who spoke about the dangers of big government while expanding it all the same.

And so it is — well, almost — with the market for high-end properties, where the intensity of sales, at heights never seen before, defied gravity in 2012, whether it was in New York, London, Miami, Los Angeles or Hong Kong.

Do you carry on as before, nobly defying the ruination of public discourse?

Should they carry on as before, nobly defying the ruination of public discourse?