Sentence examples for didn't defy from inspiring English sources
Asked by Senator Schumer why he didn't use the U.S.A. Patriot Act to allow for examination of the gun records — why he didn't defy the N.R.A. — Ashcroft dismissed the inquiry, saying, "If you send me the legislation I'll review it, and if you pass the legislation I'll enforce it".
Though the Dubai-based isternominallyCrinket chargel (itC) is nominally in chararelyt rarely defies Indian wishes, just as it didn't defy the wishes of the English, as expressed through the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), in the days when it was based at Lord's and called itself the Imperial Cricket Conference.
She did not defy conventions; she worked feverishly within them.
Luxemburg did not defy the conventions of gender openly, she simply circumnavigated them when it suited her to do so.
As the article said, he was an ardent supporter of the hard-liners; he did not defy them.
Some, as Duffy points out, did not defy the new Elizabethan establishment, and paradoxically seeded their attitudes inside the reformation Church of England, which has generally been better at being rueful about its past mistakes than other churches one could name.
Yet they did not defy the EU, but rather want "more Europe": one important difference is that they see themselves in the core of a possible two-tier EU.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn - who did not defy convention and joined Mr Cameron and other guests in white tie - used a private meeting at the Palace with Mr Xi to raise a number of issues including human rights and the steel crisis.
By integrating the emotive melodies of American folk music with the electric rhythms of rock 'n' roll and the experimental intellectualism of modern poetry, Dylan did not defy the spirit of the '65 festival; he represented the ideal it sought to achieve.
Asked if the Weh campaign considered the Foleys' request before deciding to use the footage, a spokeswoman told The Huffington Post that the ad did not defy the family's wishes because it only showed Foley's executioner -- an as-yet-unidentified man with a British accent -- and not Foley himself.
"I don't defy federal courts within the law".
