The phrase "it defy" is not correct in written English.
It should instead be written as "it defies". Example: The odds of succeeding seemed to defy logic, but against all expectations, they succeeded.
What did people find so disturbing in a book that they wanted to ban it, and to what extent was it a product of its time or did it defy social norms of its era?
The Barcelonans' special conceit is that time exists so that they can take it to its limits -- expand it, defy it, roll it back, string it out, turn it into theater.
If you ever experienced the joy of kicking one of those 99p footballs from your local petrol station as a child, and watched it defy logic to curl and take on a life of its own, parts of the 2010 World Cup may have looked familiar.
Might it defy the historical rule and last forever?
Her philosophy is: "face it, embrace it, defy it, and conquer it".
"But Mexico is also a generally moralistic culture, so his attitude toward this mentality is to question it, defy it".
