Sentence examples for defying decisions from inspiring English sources

The former justice minister Ken Clarke and former attorney general Dominic Grieve QC – both re-elected to the Commons last week – have in the past warned about the danger of defying decisions handed down by ECHR judges on the grounds that it would undermine respect for the rule of law across Europe.

Ultimately, the case presented circumstances that stubbornly defied decision-making templates of the past.

Moore has a history of defying federal decisions.

Interestingly, most of the women who reported defying the decisions and wishes of their partners or mothers-in-law were those who were relatively younger (20 30 years), had some level of formal education, and were involved in some income-generating economic activity that made them relatively economically independent.

Indeed, many of the women in this study who were able to leverage decision-making or defied the decisions of their husbands or mothers-in-law were women with some form of education.

In 2008, it was fined nearly 900 million euros in so-called periodic penalties for defying a decision that regulators had imposed on the company.

In 2008, Microsoft was fined nearly €900 million in so-called periodic penalties for defying a decision that regulators had imposed on the company.

He was expelled from the Brotherhood last year for defying the decision of its leaders to bar members from running for president or engaging in politics outside its own political party.

Mr. Barenboim added that the idea of defying the decision not to play Wagner came to him when he heard the musical ring of a cell phone during an airport news conference when he arrived in Israel on Wednesday.

[The] decision to jail Scot Young is more than this: the courts are signalling that if you defy their decisions, you risk going to prison – even in a divorce case".

He married a strong woman, a fellow lawyer, Pauline LaFon, and spent much of his career defending unpopular stands, like his opposition to American involvement in Vietnam and his refusal to sign Senator Strom Thurmond's Southern Manifesto, which encouraged Southerners to defy court decisions on desegregation.