Sentence examples for fails to defy from inspiring English sources
This further supports our finding that there is a relationship between geographical distance and culture, and allows us to speculate that the Internet fails to defy the law of gravity.
Stations have tried, and failed, to defy the odds.
It is tempting to say that Vince failed to defy expectation, for Pakistan have his number.
Once the great progressive hope of the Democratic Party, he ultimately failed to defy Enoch Powell's famous dictum that "all political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure".
In the season four finale, a "great evil" is awakened in space after Clark defies Jor-El's instructions and fails to obtain the three stones of knowledge.
Probably not, so long as it tries to be friends with everyone and fails to use its weight on those, such as Mr Mugabe, who defy it.
Mr. Rivers continues to defy expectations: he is in his 70's, and he never fails to question the rules of jazz.
The US Bill of Rights, which has a strike-down power, has also failed to stop liberty defying legislation from being introduced like the USA Patriot Act 2001, the Homeland Security Act 2002, the Real ID Act 2005, the Detainee Treatment Act 2005 or the Military Commissions Act 2006.
BBC London 94.9's Kevin Hand: "Yorkshire claimed the ascendency in the match after the Middlesex batting failed to produce a partnership to defy conditions that heavily favoured the bowlers.
