Sentence examples for bucks the system from inspiring English sources

Even now, as an ambassador to the game and playmaker in developing talent, McEnroe is unconventional in the way he bucks the system and is devoted to working within that system.

You did not see this B-movie starring Danny Trejo, but if you did, you'd probably end up disappointed that the film is not about a very naughty backside that bucks the system and tells it like it is.

Voters who are looking for a politician who bucks the system will be more attracted to Ms. Clark, who has gone her own way both in Queens politics and in the State Legislature.

Zinnemann created a subversive spectrum of manliness, with tender-at-the-bone Montgomery Clift as the soldier who bucks the system; beefy Ernest Borgnine as the sadistic stockade boss who menaces him and a scrawny, motormouthed Frank Sinatra; and Lancaster's coolly noncommittal top sergeant inhabiting the ambiguous middle ground.

Yet Offred bucks the system.

Despite his Ivy League pedigree, Obama skips his shot at easy millions, becomes one of those much maligned "do nothing" community organizers, bucks the system, fights the old school and ends up president.

He mimicked the sleeve and bucked the system.

Becky Sharp was a girl who bucked the system.

"Everything is worked out for them and they don't buck the system".

"But in high school, I started bucking the system," she said.

It has the heft and the prestige to buck the system.