Sentence examples for could be defied from inspiring English sources

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.

The Polish settlement emboldened the Hungarians, who decided that Moscow could be defied.

Brezhnev would never understand if his orders could simply be defied.

Parents, however, may be defying some of those trends, which could be good news for owners of children's stores.

Convention has been defied.

Conventions were defied and major novelties ­devised.

She's defied the odds.

"He's defied odds before".

Statistical significance was defied as P < 0.05.

In the present study, the previously mentioned drawbacks were defied.

She looked capable of finding further improvement there despite a busy two-year-old campaign, and could be up to defying a 10lb higher mark today.