Sentence examples for capable of defying from inspiring English sources
The four-year-old was having his second start for the stable when winning by two lengths at Hamilton and looks capable of defying a 6lb rise.
After more than a century on the West Side of Manhattan, St. Michael Academy had assumed the traits of some of its best students: cash poor, underestimated by peers, capable of defying expectations with breathtaking regularity.
For years, Mr. McCain has struck a different kind of cloth as a presidential candidate: as a politician capable of defying his party or embracing it; holding a world view that defied any easy ideological setting; having an ironic detachment as he observed himself on the campaign trail, combined with a sly sense of humor that leavened his occasional bursts of temper.
Moreover, a Qatar capable of defying its more powerful neighbours would put on public display limits to Saudi and UAE power.
Fear of defying convention.
Not because they can play Led Zeppelin so loud the results register on the Richter scale, but because, when perfectly calibrated, the sound waves they produce are capable of helping objects defy gravity.
It sort of defies logic".
Chaos theory and its companion, complexity, defy determinisms and lead scholars toward narrative explanations capable of dealing with organized complexity.
1347 1354), who records that it was virtually impregnable, capable of holding provisions for three years and defying the whole city if need be.
Both defied ingrained attitudes that women aren't capable of keeping up with the job's grueling pace.
