Sentence examples for defy state from inspiring English sources

It beat a Mississippi State team that had the courage to defy state legislators' orders not to play a team with black players.

Mr. West has become an overnight folk hero to some for his willingness to defy state law by presiding over same-sex marriages in his upstate village.

The threat from the office of the outgoing attorney general was contained in a letter released to the public Friday shortly after Uber declared it would defy state regulations, a move the company said was "an important issue of principle".

In short, Douglass called on free people, black and white, as well as enslaved people to defy state and federal laws that protected slavery.

Going back a bit further, it's the idea behind the data company HavenCo moving onto Sealand – an abandoned World War II sea fort off the coast of Great Britain – in the early 2000s to defy state control of its servers.

The illicit trade has also criminalized the economy of eastern Sinai, turning the Bedouin tribes that control most of the tunnels into powerful mafias that defy state authority.

State regulators say they took the rare action because the company has persistently defied state rules.

Trévidic's reputation was as a fiercely independent investigator: Paris Match called him a "judge who defies state power".

Hailing the ruling, Mr. Lorence said, "Change comes by respecting regular procedures, not by defying state law".

The fight between a Maine nurse under Ebola-quarantine orders and authorities intensified on Thursday, as the nurse defied state orders and went for a bike ride with her boyfriend.

The joyous frenzy to marry started after Mayor Gavin C. Newsom told city and county officials to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples under a directive that opponents say defies state law.