Sentence examples for defy arithmetic from inspiring English sources
Mathematics do come into play as Anna learns how to calculate f-stops and depths of field, and those reckonings are preliminaries that hint at the novel's dominant metaphor: "I would say," Anna's photographer neighbor, Theo, tells her, "that the mathematics of love defy arithmetic".
But that claim defies arithmetic.
Innovation allowed lenders to pass the high risks of these mortgages to international capital-market firms whose hunger for easy returns following the collapse of the dot com bubble helped convince them that new risk-management techniques and derivative instruments could defy basic arithmetic.
Regardless of the fact that seems to defy basic arithmetic, he might just have the time to make that stick.
We propose that laboratory science and clinical research represent fundamentally different research paradigms that defy a simple arithmetic of combining the skills of individuals on teams.
That means it is at the mercy of the printing press, cranking out roubles to meet payrolls and keep bankrupt enterprises afloat.Thus the economic rules that the custodians of the Russian economy are threatening to defy are not so much western as a matter of simple arithmetic.
Yes, we can argue about the precise impact of the stimulus on spending and jobs, but it defies the laws of arithmetic to argue, as some prominent conservative economists do, that it had no effect at all.
