Sentence examples for defied probability from inspiring English sources

The couple's meeting defied probability.

Then the teams, defying probability, met in the 1986 World Series.

If the latter is true, then the six men that have achieved this have done so by walking a path that defies probability.

Private sector experience shouldn't disqualify someone from federal employment, but we can agree on that and still acknowledge the extent to which it defies probability that so many of the very best people chosen for top policymaking positions in Washington all happened to have had high paying jobs on Wall Street.

"But this one has defied all probability without lightning-strike damage and never having been struck by a car even though it's so close to the road".

His acrobatic finish was as eye-catching as it was effective, beating his opposite man, Riley, with a horizontal dive that defied all probability until video replays proved conclusively he had touched down in the corner.

Tall and regal, with a deep, majestic voice, Angelou defied all probability and category, becoming one of the first black women to enjoy mainstream success as an author and thriving in virtually every artistic medium.

He defied all probability when he became a community organizer, settled into south-side Chicago and embraced an African American identity; in many ways the available identity most foreign to his own.

This work is about "creating order where randomness is expected, defying natural probabilities," Mr. Van Aelst says.

He knew exactly what he was doing, describing a "romance where the incidents defy the probabilities, and march just inside the border of the possible".

It may defy laws of probability.