Sentence examples for couldn't defy from inspiring English sources

But it couldn't defy Madison Square Garden's union curfew, which meant cutting short a closing song that the band shared with its opening acts as a free-form drumming jam.

The forward could not defy a tight angle, leaving St Johnstone to breathe again.

If Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson and Muhammad Ali could not defy time, why does Hatton imagine he can?

Unfortunately he could not defy the laws of gravity, or those of the IAAF.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, the minority leader said it was a myth that presidents could not defy lawmakers in such circumstances.

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the pre-eminent Shia religious leader of immense influence, whom the Americans at the height of their power found they could not defy, will no longer see the Prime Minister's emissaries.

The removal of Saddam Hussein was meant to eradicate weapons of mass destruction, create a model democracy in the Middle East and demonstrate to rogue states that they could not defy the world's only superpower.

In the end, though, they could not defy the law that says quality wins matches - and in this case the Capital One Cup.

In his first term, Mr Ahmadinejad decided that he could not defy the clerics who had helped to put him in office.

They died with their face to the foe and that pathetic inadequate @realDonaldTrump couldn't even defy the weather to pay his respects to The Fallen #hesnotfittorepresenthisgreatcountry.

Soldiers "died with their face to the foe and that pathetic inadequate [Trump] couldn't even defy the weather to pay his respects to The Fallen," Soames wrote on Twitter. .