Sentence examples for long defied from inspiring English sources
Boxing has long defied efforts to clean it up.
The Pact unites Mexico's political parties against the unelected interests that have long defied them.
The Harappan script has long defied attempts to read it, and therefore the language remains unknown.
Sudan's involvement adds yet another complication to a civil war that has long defied a diplomatic resolution.
Catholics make up more than a fourth of the electorate, but they had long defied political targeting.
AL JAZEERA, the Qatari satellite television network that revolutionised Arab news coverage a decade ago, has long defied its critics.
Loosely, that is the question posed by North Korea-watchers trying to understand how an odious regime has remained stable for so long, defying frequent predictions of its downfall.North Korea should, by rights, be tottering under the weight of its spectacular economic mismanagement.
G0.253+0.016, which is about 30 light-years long, defies the conventional wisdom that dense gas glouds should produce lots of stars.
If America is serious about this, Israel cannot for long defy it.
Jayaben Desai, who has died aged 77 after a long illness, defied stereotyping all her life.
A sense of inevitability has surrounded Bartolo Colon from the moment he signed with the Yankees: no matter how well he pitched or how long he defied logic and expectations, his 38-year-old body would eventually betray him.
