Sentence examples for may defy orders from inspiring English sources

About 70 Tory MPs may defy orders and vote for it; one, John Redwood, urged a rethink of the planned three-line whip.

A: Theatre must defy order and authority.

However, he attributes the death of his wife and daughter to this trait, saying that if he had defied orders, he may have been able to protect them.

It may defy laws of probability.

Some pain, however, may defy treatment and persist for years.

Djokovic's splits and stretches may defy physics, but Del Potro defies gravity with the speed of some of his shots.

Drug companies may defy expectations and produce a new generation of blockbusters.

Jeter may defy expectations and bounce back to be the best-hitting shortstop in the American League.

Complexity means that some relationships, such as the effects of aerosols, may defy easy generalisation.

Our findings may defy the perception that performing TKA in osteoarthritic patients with less radiographic severity results in inferior postoperative outcomes.

In May it claimed that panicking workers defied orders and fled the crippled nuclear plant.