Sentence examples for guilty of defying from inspiring English sources
At his trial, he was found guilty of defying the authority of the provisional government and was sentenced to death.
"Hair" has a history of defying expectations.
Apple has a great track record of defying those rules.
Fear of defying convention.
Tony Bennett was found guilty of contempt for defying court orders when he posted letters online in 2011 that blamed Gerry and Kate McCann for the three-year-old's disappearance in 2007, the Guardian reported.
It sort of defies logic".
Bolton found Arpaio guilty of contempt for intentionally defying the 2011 court order, which barred his officers from stopping and detaining Latino motorists solely on suspicion that they were in the country illegally.
Not only do these three novels work brilliantly as free-standing literary works, none of them has, to my knowledge, produced ressentiment-infused subcultures (though Maguire, in providing the inspiration for the shlock anthem "Defying Gravity," is guilty of much worse).
It is a tragedy because both Hamas and Israel are guilty of hubris that transcends any bounds and defies reality.
To whatever extent Governor Sulzer was genuinely guilty of greed or arrogance, his biggest political blunder was defying Charles F. Murphy, a fellow Democrat and the boss of Tammany Hall.
