Sentence examples for overtly defying from inspiring English sources
House Republicans, mindful of how their handling of budget issues provoked a backlash in 1995, have been less aggressive in overtly defying the administration than have Republicans in the Senate, who will remain in the minority yet have more power to obstruct under Senate rules.
Even as he overtly represented the Nazi regime, Gyssling repeatedly risked his life by defying Hitler.
Yet it did, defying gravity, defying logic.
If the expectation was for Johnson, an artist who is well-known for his exploration of race, to devise a show that more overtly nettles the current administration or longstanding systemic inequality, this summer show defies it.
If the expectation was for Johnson, an artist who is well-known for his explorations of race, to devise a show that more overtly nettles the current administration or longstanding systemic inequality, this summer show defies it.
Prior Israeli leaders have clashed with U.S. presidents, but Bibi is the first Israeli leader who has repeatedly embarrassed and defied the U.S. president and actively contributed to an overtly partisan effort to portray the President as anti-Israel and untrustworthy.
The two-year-old government of Boris Tadic has been overtly pro-Western and has vowed to apprehend Mr. Mladic, even though he has defied arrest for more than two years after his fellow fugitive, the former Bosnian strongman Radovan Karadzic, was brought in.
Famous does not include anything so transgressive, but its depiction of women like Swift naked, presumably without their consent (West defied them to sue, in a now-deleted tweet), has caused disquiet, though West claims that he took any overtly sexual shots out of the video.
It defies easy description.
