Sentence examples for defy for from inspiring English sources

Already it seems like an impossible stretch of memory but it is true and it is why the closing rites were filled with so much pride and emotion and, maybe above all, a feeling not so much of a job well done but a spirit regained, a sense of ourselves and the world around us that might just defy, for a little while at least, the bleakest forecasts.

It is unscientific to "defy, for no good logical or empirical reason, established hypotheses and laws".

However, when these taboos threaten to destroy the culture itself, they must be defied for the health of the overall public -- and to save the culture itself.

The difference, you might say, between a game and a test is that games have wriggle-room: for defying orthodoxies, for invention, for the play of instinct.

Speaking after the talks, the prime minister also warned North Korea not to defy calls for it to abandon a rocket launch planned for later this week.

And if the show is good, I get to defy expectations for those people who seem to think I've been working for Ringling Brothers all these years.

I defy you for starters, sir!

"So why should she quit?" But even Chusovitina can defy age for only so long.

The London market looks likely to defy gravity for a while longer.

Even so, few of them defy demolition for more than a few decades.

It is tempting to say that Vince failed to defy expectation, for Pakistan have his number.