Sentence examples for defies that from inspiring English sources
But Ovechkin defies that trend.
At 61, Marianne Faithfull defies that old maxim that if you can remember the Sixties you weren't really there.
The sole portrait in the show – of a boy Vaughan adored – defies that definition altogether with its down-turned face.
He has since left Manchester City to go on loan at Blackburn Rovers, where O'Neill will hope his development defies that club's current struggles.
The sheer number of childless adults in poverty defies that notion, as does compassion and economic necessity — an economy cannot thrive with a significant share of the working-age population stuck in poverty.
In "Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay" (Cornell University Press, $29.95), Andrew L. Erdman defies that unfortunate stereotype in resurrecting an early-20th-century celebrity who was suggestively famous as the "I Don't Care Girl" because she popularized the song "I Don't Care" and made it her mantra.
Nasheed defied that order too.
The wireless communications business has defied that trend somewhat.
Defying that, as Liverpool did, meant dismissal from office.
But Spain, for now at least, seems to be defying that argument.
Did anything change except the Israeli veto that Syria defied that day and that everyone else obeyed?
