Sentence examples for defy nature from inspiring English sources

"They should not defy nature".

That's the only explanation for how the ageless Bernard Hopkins continues to defy nature and logic.

However, unless they are also prepared to defy nature and risk their lives, they will be useless and worse.

Developing this theme from the outset, Mooney begins with an extended review of man's efforts to defy nature through flight, focusing on the evolution of the zeppelin.

Small armies of women with brooms and T-shirts that declare "Keep Juba Clean and Green" are trying to defy nature by sweeping dust off the tarred streets.

There are no full songs, just recognisable samples from club anthems and teases of choruses, complete with noises that defy nature itself.

"They looked at us like we were crazy people, defying nature.

Initial bravado -- man defies nature -- gives way to a broken man's weary fatalism.

He marvels at the "boldness of mankind in defying nature's darkness"; at advertising hoardings more impressive than the Kim iconography.

In his Reith lecture last year Kirkwood said: "Never in human history has a population so wilfully defied nature as has the present generation".

Defying nature's fury in front of the rubble of City Hall was the 800-ton Pioneer Monument, a sculptural marker commemorating the history and settlement of California, a tower of civic pride that stood even taller in the wake of disaster.