Afraid to defy either side, Ibrahim plumped for his equivalent of the Third Way, and went off to stay with his relatives in a neighbouring province.A lot of Acehnese feel equally trapped.
Still, the quandary some Democratic lawmakers face defying either the president or powerful labor interests in an election year was on full display in Ohio.
Still, there are many other veteran sea-ice scientists (this is not false balance) who note that the complexity of this system has consistently defied predictions in either direction (see this year's Sea Ice Outlook forecasts to get the range of forecasts).
This reveals a complex interplay between the parasite and the immune system, defying an either-or choice between the mechanical and immunological hypotheses of CM and supporting an integrated mechanism.
When faced with this dilemma, some health workers followed the directive despite their own misgivings, whereas others defied it, either by providing anonymous prescriptions on simple scraps of paper or by issuing properly completed prescription forms.
Around a dozen of Mr Cameron's Conservative MP defied their leader and either voted against or abstained on his whipped vote to extend air strikes in Syria.
The final three courts to intervene all did so in ways that either defied common sense or reeked of partisanship (and sometimes managed both).
These women defied belonging to either a 'traditional' and 'modern' ideology; they were identified by others in their community as being 'traditional' because they valued, first and foremost, their role as young mothers.
(And, while I'm thrilled that Ivy Lynn won over Karen Cartwright, it defies plausibility that either of them would beat Audra McDonald).
The opera's characteristic is less pure humor than an underlying sense of humanity, something it has in common with other great operas poised on the razor's edge between laughter and tears: Mozart's "Nozze di Figaro" or "Don Giovanni" (the most famous example of an opera that defies characterization as either tragic or comic), or Wagner's "Meistersinger".
Will either defy the odds and go further this year?
