Sentence examples for defying this rule from inspiring English sources

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The nail-salon industry in New York, though, is defying this rule by paying workers much less than a market wage.

The nail-salon industry in New York, though, is defying this rule — prices have remained the same even as everything else has grown more expensive, and even as wages in the city and the U.S. have risen.

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Yet some students defy this rule.

The four-syllable Gentleman Jack, of Cedar Grove, N.J., defies this rule.

Despite success in a wide range of applications, exceptions amply exist that clearly defy this rule of thumb when parent l-peptides adopt an α-helical conformation in their bound state.

"Chauvet is the only example which apparently defies this rule".

As a favor to myself and others, I rarely defy this rule.

In general, video games are about defying the rules of everyday life.

Back then, my idea of defying the rules was Googling the date June 4th, the date of the Tiannanmen Square massacre.

Defying the rules, Mr. Elias crept into the barracks where his brother lay dying and crawled into his bed.

In L'Avventura, famously, something mysterious happens and then, defying the rules of movie narrative, it refuses to un-happen.

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