Sentence examples for defied death from inspiring English sources

There is only Eva Joly, vice-chair of the special European parliamentary committee on tax rulings, who has defied death threats in the past to investigate big business corruption.

The young American aviator who defied death to achieve the impossible - crossing the Atlantic solo in a monoplane - began life as a Brechtian archetype, living embodiment of the Marxist axiom that 'truth is concrete', a man fulfilling the destiny of his machine.

Those victims on the flight were meant to die, and by leaving the plane beforehand the survivors defied Death's plan.

Andy defied death by jumping 46m into the crashing waves below.

Sheene again defied death seven years later when a collision with another bike during practice for the British Grand Prix saw him engulfed by a fireball.

You don't need to look much further than Atari's history to find a videogame publisher that has defied death on numerous occasions (though Atari has been transformed innumerable times in the process).

He was a completely death-defying rogue who didn't just defy death himself time and time again, but also visited it on other people.

Defying death, Coliseum resurrected itself.

They seemed to be defying death on a daily basis.

Members of both cults have the power to defy death.

At one moment he turns to technology to defy death.