Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected]'s strongmanSIR – "The new world order" (March 22nd) criticised Vladimir Putin for "defying the principle that intervention abroad should be a last resort in the face of genuine suffering".
There are many celebrities that are defying this principle, though.
I had dinner the other night (said the professor) in company that defied all principles of science.
Yet WNYC also prided itself on a being a "dual-format" station, equally emphasizing information and classical music, an approach that defied his principles.
At his best, he said, he managed to slow time and warp space with his speed and his strategy, and defy geometric principles with impossibly angled shots, as though he were a character from "The Matrix".
But as a congressman and then a senator from Pennsylvania, his record often defied those principles when it came to defending the interests of a political and economic powerhouse in his state: the steel industry.
In a unanimous ruling, SCOC agreed with the lower court on every major point – that the government had denied Khadr's constitutional rights, shirked its own international obligations, and defied the principles of fundamental justice.
The Miami-Dade County Canvassing Board's abrupt decision on Nov. 21 simply to abandon its statutory responsibility, purportedly due to the burden of complying with this court's ruling, frustrates the implementation of this court's mandate and defies the principles of Florida law that place the expression of the true will of the electorate ahead of concerns about administrative inconvenience.
The term "randomly" as used in this study means that the vertical profile and spatial distribution of materials in waste rock piles (internal structure) defy stratigraphy principles applicable to natural sediments (superposition and continuity).
5. Interestingly, Lewis considers a similar argument against immanent universals (viz., that if they existed, they would violate the transitivity of co-location) and rejects it very casually: "by occurring repeatedly, universals defy intuitive principles.
