During the campaign, he indicated that he was in favour of laws being defied if they were bad.
As Sudan brazenly defies, if not the world's will, then, its wishes, and the death toll closes upon half a million, the pity is that the people of Darfur can in fact be saved.
The threat of massive retaliation in response to a nuclear attack is a paradigmatic example of a kind of threat that would be irrational to execute after the associated demand is defied — if, for instance, one has already been the victim of one's opponent's first-strike.
It's something that you stand up to if you're able, and it's something you may conspire to defy if you choose--but you never really recover from it".
Sneaky cats will defy if they can.
Mainly, Wuhan's leaders are counting on property prices to continue defying gravity, even if some analysts predict a coming crash.
Two years after the development corporation took over the Deutsche Bank building, it still loomed over ground zero, as if defying the site to be redeveloped.
"Whose niece are you?" "Mr.'s — can't you tell?" Her eyelids grew wide and her chin rose, as if defying him not to notice the similarity.
When I think of them, and how warmly they look after me, as if defying a care to cloud my face, the tears spring to my eyes even before I can thank them.
When spun, the top rotates in mid-air as if defying physics.
When I visited this weekend to attend the bar's 45th anniversary party, an enormous, foreboding tower crane sat across the street, as if defying it to continue existing.
