Sentence examples for being defied from inspiring English sources
His administration was being defied 42 years ago by the miners' union.
Chief Justice Chaudhry remonstrated with the corruption body's prosecutors, clearly angry that his order had being defied.
During the campaign, he indicated that he was in favour of laws being defied if they were bad.
Downing Street officials claimed that a fresh government vote, setting out reasons why the ruling was being defied, might satisfy the European court.
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.
The liberal capitalist order in West Germany was being defied in the late 60's and early 70's by a younger generation whose calls for revolution echoed his own; he no longer felt himself a stranger when back in Berlin or Munich, and he started writing regularly again for German opera houses and orchestras.
Convention has been defied.
Conventions were defied and major novelties devised.
Scaphio: Are we to understand that we are defied?
The ravages of time have indeed been defied.
