Sentence examples for defied the gravity from inspiring English sources

It followed the United States into and out of recession in 1990 and 1991, but since then it has avoided the contagion of the Asian currency and financial crises, the technology bust and the pall thrown over the global economy by terrorism, and it has apparently defied the gravity of its own economic cycle.

RECREATIONAL vehicle sales and rentals are booming, seemingly defying the gravity of a slumping economy.

He was defying the sway of the contest the way that Portsmouth is defying the gravity of its situation.

The figures are apparently defying the gravity of the falling 18-year-old age cohort and show no sign of a backlash against £9,000 a year tuition fees.

"China keeps defying the gravity of a global slowdown because of its robust domestic demand," said Dong Tao, an economist at Credit Suisse First Boston in Hong Kong.

Financiers thought they had created an economy that defied the laws of gravity and basic accountancy.

For 184 years, the fragile James Brown House at 326 Spring Street has defied the pressures of gravity and developers.

FOR years, the American currency has defied the laws of currency gravity.

Some of these book stacks defy the law of gravity".

WHEN aircraft were invented, people marvelled at how they seemed to defy the law of gravity.

"I suppose we were defying the laws of gravity," said Maureen Lodes, president of the Sharon Springs Chamber of Commerce.