Sentence examples for defy with from inspiring English sources

It was an insiders' club that any outsider could defy with a modicum of guile.

The law is for the powerful to defy with impunity, and for the weak to be punished with.

Already, Turkey's refined oil exports to Iran have dropped significantly as a result of the international sanctions, which Turkey cannot defy with impunity.

The $9 million Visor raised came from the venture capital firm Defy, with participation from Unusual Ventures, SVB Capital and existing investors like Obvious Ventures, Fika Ventures and Boxgroup, which had put a previous $6.5 million into the company. .

It also means the aging that she defies with workouts, image makeovers and what looks like plastic surgery.

When the country's leading anti-Mafia investigator, Giovanni Falcone, was assassinated in Sicily this month, the bombers' message was interpreted here as a magnified expression of the sentiment that state authority may be defied with impunity.

Now, however, it seems clear that this planned tribute is not about to go the way of the hourglass waistline, mandatory in the 1940s and '50s, and which Balenciaga defied with tunics, baby dolls and empire lines.

This is the golden rule Cyrus defied with obvious glee.

Expectations are defied with such vim and vigor that they also fall by the wayside.

North Korea has become further isolated after a January nuclear test, its fourth, and the launch of a long-range rocket in February brought tightened U.N. Security Council sanctions that Pyongyang defied with several ballistic missile launches.

Jacobs is attempting to defy modernity with this voyage.