Sentence examples for defying of from inspiring English sources

'The Last Emperor was a jolly defying of Hollywood,' Bertolucci remembers.

It is this smashing of the odds, the defying of the worldly fates that pronounce this or that should happen, that remind me of the power of the human spirit.

One stakeholder reflected on this and said: Within all the cultures of medicine, surgery is the most death defying of all.

The French like stories of comebacks, of defying fate and stories of revenge.

The Swiss seem to be waking up to the consequences of defying the rest of Europe.

At his trial, he was found guilty of defying the authority of the provisional government and was sentenced to death.

Thailand's economy has picked up steam, defying predictions of a downturn in the second quarter.

Mary Landrieu, the three-term Democratic senator from Louisiana, is used to defying predictions of her demise.

Voting continued to go smoothly Tuesday, defying predictions of chaos and violence.

Defying critics of new state regulations, California continued to pad its hefty payrolls in June.

That's the old impulse of basically defying authority and of doing it your way".