Sentence examples for defying barriers from inspiring English sources

For most of her 53 years, starting in childhood playing basketball against boys, the Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook has had the habit of defying barriers.

It was immigration and anti-fracking activists who were defying the barriers this time.

Clara is a woman-child who falls in love with Fabrizio Naccarelli, an Italian barely out of his teens whose feelings for Clara defy barriers both intellectual and linguistic.

Dr. Wright descended from a distinguished medical family that defied racial barriers in a profession long dominated by white men.

But some have defied these barriers to provide us with compelling insights into how to scale up.

Airbnb's Korean success also defies cultural barriers seen in other East Asian countries: In Korea, the home is seen as an extremely private space.

Cheering him the past two weeks as he defies preconceived barriers about his anatomical structure is both exciting and hopeful for our returning wounded.

I wonder if Mathematics and The RZA had these battles over a logo that would some day defy the barriers of language and seep into the minds of people around the world.

What motivated Deki to defy traditional barriers was that she did not want to be dependent on someone else to read and write her letters and official documents.

Tearing down mental barriers (defying stereotypes and fears of one another) will automatically enable tearing down physical barriers.

Max Roach, a founder of modern jazz who rewrote the rules of drumming in the 1940s and spent the rest of his career breaking musical barriers and defying listeners' expectations, died early yesterday in Manhattan.