Defying Sentence Examples

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  • She lifted her chin, defying him to lash out at her again.

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  • She tore her gaze away and twisted her head, yielding yet defying him as well.

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  • So early as the beginning of July, Austrian officers, with the permission of the minister of war, had joined the Serb insurgents who, under Stratemirovic, were defying the Magyar power in the banat.

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  • A tear rolled down her cheek and made a death defying leap to her coat.

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  • The proclamation on the 26th of February 1861 of the new constitution for the whole monarchy, elaborated by Anton von Schmerling, though far from satisfying the national aspirations of the races within the empire, at least gave Austria a temporary popularity in Germany; the liberalism of the Habsburg monarchy was favourably contrasted with the " reactionary " policy of Prussia, where Bismarck was defying the majority of the diet in his determination to build up the military power of Prussia.

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  • The main reason he's famous is because of his death defying walks between the windmill sails, while they are turning.

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  • Lancaster hoped to use Wycliffe as his mouthpiece against his enemies; Wycliffe hoped to see Lancaster disendowing bishops and monasteries and defying the pope.

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  • The spoken word is kept to an absolute minimum, defying the usual cacophony that one is used to within the Hollywood mainstream.

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  • Scottish armies repeatedly invaded English-held territory, defying generations of Anglo-Norman kings.

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  • On the subject of defying death, for good or for bad, Sands of Time has a most unique gameplay mechanic.

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  • A senior Scottish Labor MP said the prime minister must stop defying public opinion over the crisis in Lebanon.

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  • Now, defying all reason, the Grado Empire has invaded neighboring Renais.

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  • The rebel regime in Rhodesia is not only defying the Crown and imposing an increasingly oppressive dictatorship.

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  • Defying all the odds, Glasgow's Pavilion regularly purveys variety to this day.

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  • Collect the tags along the track, then go to the exit, performing gravity defying stunts on your way.

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  • But the story moves on and next we have the stupidity of defying Him.

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  • He was, to quote the words of a contemporary, " like an apprentice defying his master."

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  • The development of culture is to a certain extent a question of race, and although forming one species, the varieties of mandiffer in almost imperceptible gradations with a complexity defying classification (see Anthropology).

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  • These vigilantes were the good citizens (the committee of 1851 included some Boo and that of 1856 some6000-8000citizens of all classes), who organized outside of law, " not secretly, but in debate, in daylight, with sobriety and decorum," to defend and establish, through defying, its rule.

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  • Defying all the odds, Glasgow 's Pavilion regularly purveys variety to this day.

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  • The main reason he 's famous is because of his death defying walks between the windmill sails, while they are turning.

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  • There are ways to keep your small children active without defying the family budget or suffering from the "soccer mom" syndrome in which mothers are overly extended by taking their children around from activity to activity.

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  • If you're on a mission to slow the effects of time, try Olay's Total Effects Age Defying Cleansing Cloths.

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  • The next time you want to tout a stunt as "death defying," bring your A-Game and make us all, once again, believe in magic.

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  • Defying fans' fears, Metroid Prime managed to preserve as much of the original flavor as possible and went on to become one of the most highly praised games of the GameCube era.

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  • Perhaps the attraction is more about defying the rules of "polite" society by doing something often considered taboo, even if the activity is mild when compared to other things we might try.

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  • It was pretty creative, certainly gravity defying, and incredibly entertaining.

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  • The two CD set included a bonus disc featuring performances from productions of the show from all over the world, plus a dance remix of the song Defying Gravity by LeeAnn Rimes and Delta Goodrem.

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  • Age Defying - This is another anti-aging line.

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