Defying rules and cultural standards, she lived in the slum with Odede's family.
He's not out there defying rules handed down by elites to control what we say.
If your teenage boy is defying rules that are meant to keep him and others safe and healthy, such as not texting while driving or avoiding alcohol at parties, it's time to have a talk with him.
The prosecutors' initial explanations, before the spying charges were brought, were different -- that some of the accused had violated exchange controls, and that others, in Hebrew schools, defied rules requiring separation of male and female students in classrooms.
Booker seemingly defied rules by releasing confidential documents.
And though the heroes themselves seem to defy normal rules of aging, their sartorial choices are often keyed to specific eras.
The nail-salon industry in New York, though, is defying this rule by paying workers much less than a market wage.
Defying another rule of fiction, "Sunset Park" is written mostly in summary, large chunks of exposition in which we are told exactly what each character is thinking, feeling, facing.
Finally, the emperor, apparently seeking the favour of the Sikhs as possible allies against the Indian states still defying Mughal rule, relented and set the Guru free.
The party coaxed Palestinians towards defying British rule by staging demonstrations and political and social boycotts.
