The major achievement of his first term was also an act of defiance, though this time it involved defying his own principles.
That when your kid comes out already ten pounds, as my son was, producing enough milk to adequately feed him may have involved defying a few laws of physics.
Acting in a Rooseveltian manner involves defying orthodoxy, challenging powerful interests, and giving voice to the public's disgust at the corrupt financial establishment.
Because of larger uncertainties in the modeling of a long drillstring, including cuttings bed, tortuosity, mud properties, fluid viscous effects, wellbore temperature, pressure, and non-uniform geometrical interferences between the drillstring and wellbore, the COF is termed as a friction factor by including the uncertainties involved without defying the mechanics involved.
I do it because I'm profoundly fascinated with the paranormal, and I'm motivated by several very strange experiences I've personally been involved with, which defy plausible rationalization.
Inevitably, Grant's low standards in cabinet appointments, and his readiness to cover for associates or friends involved in condemnable behavior, defied the popular notion of a government free of corruption and favoritism.
Farhadi shows the desperation and anger involved in trying to defy the past, to annul incorrect life-choices.
This week, London's police said they would investigate 117 suspected "honour killings", many of them involving south Asians who defied family wishes.
And it probably explains why, when I began writing a novel set in the town where I grew up, one of the first chapters I wrote involved a young man defying his parents to go and watch the canyon jump.
During the early days of the revolution, before the Brotherhood decided to climb on the bandwagon — their spokesman told me that they hadn't wanted to jeopardize the demonstrations by getting involved earlier — the younger members defied their leadership by joining the protesters on Tahrir.
