All those factors set off a chaotic evolution that defies definitive determination of cause and effect.
Mike Huckabee's insurrectionist presidential campaign is defying the determination of the Republican establishment to restrict the selection of the party's nominee to pre-approved candidates.
That determination defies logic and the law, but was a necessary fiction for the agency to continue operating under limited emergency powers that such a finding invokes.
That world of creative activity anticipates what Nishida eventually considered the ultimate topos that defies description, predication, or determination by something beyond or different from it.
It is this logic, the logic of marriage itself, that Bush and other proponents of a constitutional ban defy in their determination to exclude homosexuals.
Final results from Iraq's parliamentary election may not be available for days, but this much we can already say for sure: Iraq's citizens once again showed tremendous courage and determination, defying bombs and a flawed pre-election process to cast their ballots.
In lesser hands, the work can easily seem a moral melodrama: a study of a virtuous heroine who defies an implacable tyrant, Kreon, in her determination to bury her dead brother, Polyneikes.
But I think that says something about your determination to defy the odds.
The marathon itself is a stream of celebration, a parade of people defying limits, championing their determination and resolve.
The monks have the public's support and, judging from the past fortnight's protests, the courage and determination to defy the regime.
But with his determination to defy the above obstacles, Blair is also a terrific example of the model, can-do, older worker.
