Sentence examples for defy from from inspiring English sources

Her current band, Joan as Police Woman, creates dizzying, jazz-steeped rock music that recalls erstwhile collaborators like her friend and former bandmate Antony Hegarty (Ms. Wasser played violin on Antony and the Johnsons' 2005 LP, "I Am A Bird Now," and Mr. Hegarty does a duet with her on the stunning "I Defy," from her 2006 album "Real Life") and her former partner, the folksinger Jeff Buckley.

'Holistic' notions are highly comprehensive and inclusive, but entail evaluation problems without being defied from producing redundancy (see Additional file 1).

As such, it would inflame the advocates for Greater Israel, who would defy it from the Hebron Hills to Fox News.

Cities and towns are emptying as people defy orders from the governing Taliban and try to flee.

Supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi are continuing to defy calls from the interim military government to end their sit-in protests.

The US sent naval warships to waters near the Korean peninsula Sunday as North Korea continues to defy calls from world leaders to end its nuclear testing program.

If it can keep up its current breakneck pace, a feat that would defy predictions from analysts, Facebook could reach that goal by next year.

Since then, North Korea has defied requests from the agency and from other groups and governments for more information.

The military, defying threats from North Korea and anger from China, has held several days of joint drills with South Korea in the Yellow Sea.

The odd-lot tables should be rickety enough to defy any stabilization from strategically placed matchbooks.

Second, quarks appeared to defy being freed from the particles they made up.