Sentence examples for was defied from inspiring English sources
verb
To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
The imposition of a 6 P.M. curfew, or the way it was defied?
He was defied repeatedly by the inspirational Shaka Hislop, playing only because Kelvin Jack was injured in the warm-up.
(The trend was defied as recently as last year, when the Boston Celtics won Game 5 but lost to the Los Angeles Lakers in seven games).
Nucky, of course, runs a criminal enterprise built on booze, and "Prohibition" describes vividly just how often the new law was defied, and by how many.
In 2004 he tried to steal the presidential election, but was defied by mass protests that instead swept his opponents, Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko, to power.
His bid for recognition was defied as well by the Utraquist wing, which had seized key positions during Sigismund's brief reign.
"I was defying motherhood.
He was defying both the Comm.
He was defying the sway of the contest the way that Portsmouth is defying the gravity of its situation.
The 12-year-old was defying the World Health Organisation.
But if he was defying the authorities to do something about it, they called his bluff.
