Republicans defeated Democrats who have long defied challenges from the opposition, notably Representative Gene Taylor of Mississippi, one of the most conservative Democrats in the House.
BRAVE: To Defy, challenge and dare.
To Mary Harney, the minister from a minor coalition party who pursued the inquiry for five years, defying legal challenges and some opposition, the report represents "a damning insight into the world of conspiracy, fraud and tax evasion over a long number of years".
Distracted though he is by current criminality, Mr. Barnes presses for the pardons as time-defying challenges for the halls of justice.
Acting in a Rooseveltian manner involves defying orthodoxy, challenging powerful interests, and giving voice to the public's disgust at the corrupt financial establishment.
This is art that defies conventions, challenges sensibilities, and breaks down barriers between comprehension and critique.
IThisArt: The Hais Flip Martine.
[Video] WaThisDamon Albarn Perform A Solo Concert For Androiss.
This is the grand purpose of NASA, and as suggested by Star Trek, "to boldly go where no one has gone before" - to open a frontier that is so vast that it defies comprehension, challenges our imagination and forces us to be our very best!
Casting himself as Europe's great modern heretic and iconoclast daring to think the unthinkable, Cameron both pledged his allegiance to a reformed EU while warning Britain would probably quit if it defied his challenge.
In other words, when she's not publicly performing death-defying challenges, she works with people who are facing them in real-life.
