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She made a bet that she could defy the credit crunch and live on just one pound a day for a year.

Germany cannot defy the gravity that has pulled much of the EU region close to recession, and some parts of it to negative GDP growth.

Some of the price moves, notably in the oil markets, seem to defy the underlying fundamentals of plentiful supply and rather anemic demand.

I defy anyone to walk out of a brothel or to walk out of an orphanage leaving those people behind.

He disavowed nothing; he seemed as if he would defy all things.

She felt like the only way she could courageously act in such a society was to refuse, to live in it, to defy it by death.

Thousands of anti-government protesters in Thailand have continued to defy a state of emergency declared in the capital Bangkok.

the children of those who defy the rules are sometimes denied government benefits, including access to a free education.

Superconductivity is one of those nearly magical properties that seem to defy all intuition for how the physical world ought to work.

Jack decides to wait until the price comes down. The fate seems to defy him. The price goes on rising on Friday.

Calling Ali "a fierce fighter and a man of peace, " Bush said, Ali's fighting style would be studied for years but defy imitation.

But as long as the hearts of a strong belief support, will be able to defy the storm, Ezhu fate of the throat!

It was a lonely quest for the two of them in their garage behind the shop, plotting to defy gravity and conquer the wind.

Marlena (Reese Witherspoon) and Jacob (Robert Pattinson) defy the obstacles (like the fact that she's married) to get a circus romance on.

'Thirty, ' said the first bidder, in a tone which seemed to defy anybody to go higher.

The question now is whether Mr. Kan, a plain-spoken former civic activist, can further defy precedent by lasting more than a year in office.

Choosing to defy or to deify Papa puts him squarely at the center of your universe.

Homework personnel under such " little it " , easy to cause, should defy, react while being hot, it is disorderly to cause metabolism.

There are reports that high-school students have formed investment groups to pump into shares, whose prices seem to defy the law of gravity.

Trees defy gravity. They are the only natural element in perpetual-movement toward the sky.

In Antigone we see a woman who will defy human law , and die for it , rather than transgress the eternal , unwritten laws of the gods.

If you defy the court by continuing to cut hair, another group of men will come to your shop.

I defy even Sir William Lucas himself to produce a more valuable son-in-law.

Some aspects of anyone's life will defy philosophical analysis, and perhaps analysis of any other kind too.

The Shaping was that we must not defy the Invid, but that neither could we tell any outsider of our plight!

He was also loath to have an alien among the ranks of the Grand Admirals, such as Thrawn, though he never attempted to defy Palpatine.

This is the only organ in the body which seems to defy the aging process.

Tenzin Tsundue, one of the march leaders, said they had not decided whether to defy the ban.

Advocating whistle-blowing could be misunderstood as an endorsement to defy the team or the direction of a company.

but I think I may defy even your sagacity, to discover the name of your admirer.

The craze seems to defy sales patterns and common sense elsewhere, especially for a dog that is common and is known for being fierce.

Older folk defy death and disability with metronomes in their chests and with hips made of metal and plastic.

It's such a preposterous setup that I was always aware of the plot chugging away, and the logistics of the chase defy all common sense.

His popularity continued to defy gravity, but authority was squandered, and public cynicism grew.

Languorous chords seem to defy gravity as ambient synthesizer textures frame the music with golden glow.

We cannot defy the law of attraction, which operates on the most microscopic levels of vibration, and with absolute exactitude.

Gloria Naylor, a renowned African American writer, seems to defy many of the stereotypes of someone who believes in mind control.

Our guests ran with the assignment, offering a range of books eclectic enough to defy categorization by the Dewey Decimal System.

The company name on the office building may even change, but the code will endure in ways that defy belief.

Tradition even Leonidas cannot defy. . . for he must respect the word of the ephods.

Your opponent may defy it , requiring you to carry out the costly threatened action .

Rarely did he raise his voice to anyone, and never did he argue with his wife or defy her wishes.

Monta Ellis and Leandro Barbosa are the league's fastest ball handlers and really defy you to blink while watching.

A storm as massive as Hurricane Irene would seem to defy any attempts by mere mortals to deflect it.

Liu hong defy, in a fit of pique robust out of the office will elder.

Once the building had stopped, so he hoped, it would be hard for Mr Netanyahu to defy world opinion and start again.

Just like the country's soaraway economy, the Chinese car market continues to defy expectations with its pace of growth.

And yet, you yourself defy all those characterizations.

Is technology now so powerful that the company can defy the government of one of the world's most-powerful emerging markets?

It is well known that fundamental physics is full of ideas that defy what humans are pleased to call common sense.

Perhaps you've noticed while some women really show age, others seem to defy it.

He would be a rash man who should venture to defy world public opinion and act arbitrarily.

It is too soon to know just how austerity will play out in Scotland, and Mr Salmond's ability to defy gravity should never be underrated.

Yet he is now turning up at rallies for Mr Chaudhry to defy dictatorship and defend democracy with the best of them.

Members of a group of mostly aquatic, photosynthetic organisms (see photosynthesis) that defy precise definition.

Mandatory measures must be reinforced by authorized departments and severe penalties must be imposed on those who defy regulations.

So far, such "nonequilibrium systems" defy the tool kit of statistical mechanics, and the failure leaves a gaping hole in physics.

Their lives played out in ways that would defy any imagination save Dostoyevsky's.

That's why the reincarnation, why it reincarnates; that it may have the opportunity. Can the will of man continue to defy its Maker?

Sentiment among Chinese Internet users is far from being unanimously in support of Google's decision to defy the wishes of Chinese censors.

A problem that seems to defy a satisfactory solution.

I have always been ready to use force in order to defy tyranny or ward off ruin.

Apparently unwilling to defy vested interests, it has done little to promote competition in the professions or local public services.

Zeus : With your godly power drained into the blade it will have the strength to destroy all who defy the Gods.

A few of the 7XXX series defy the general rule and are weldable.

However, as well as demonstrating a surprisingly limited technical grasp of how commodities markets work, those beliefs defy logic.

Majrouh, a humanist, found glory in these cries from the heart, which defy convention and in many ways mock male honor.

Some time or other he will be -- but it shall not be by me. Till I can forget his father, I can never defy or expose him.

Movie magic can defy reality, but actors are inescapably human. They grow and change, and don't necessarily change for the better.

Most languages today defy a simple categorization and instead represent a variety of programming styles.

That seemed to defy our logic that cats that would fall farther would be hurt less.

It was almost more important to comply with than to defy such conventional aesthetic standards.

It is no big deal in Washington when nearly 500 million Arabs, Iranians and Turks ignore and defy the United States.

Iran and North Korea can defy the Great Satan, but only America can offer the recognition the proliferating regimes crave.

Zeus : Even now as you draw your last breath, you continue to defy me!

Despite the best efforts of analysts, the daily fluctuations of stock markets frequently defy reason or easy explanation.

Others, like the Mississippi, defy our best efforts to tame them.

Every dreamer has to defy conventional society, and only a few can really be dreamers.

We cannot be sure from the leaked images, but it is definitely larger than 3. 7-inch phones like the Droid 2 or Defy.

Tough regional figures, with loyal MPs in tow, can defy central leaders by threatening to break away.

Throughout the weekend, Dr. Hew Len gave us tools for transformation, tools that totally defy intellectualism .

Just being with you feels like I can defy the whole world.

Gird yourselves to defy death, do not give one step. Defeat the Qin army!

This respect needs a very strong superintendency organization, let these people not dare defy the law.

Still, there have been times over the past few months when both stocks seemed to defy gravity.

'We're still in a recession but Apple continues to defy gravity, ' said Shaw Wu, an industry analyst for Kaufman Bros.

These people defy the government's authority at a number of points, particularly along the northern boundaries.

But to defy the SPD with distinctive conservative policies would risk offending public opinion and paralysing government.

The chief of the United Nations Assistance Mission is appealing to Afghanistan's 17 million eligible voters to defy the Taliban.

This world would see shifting interests and alliances, regional and global, that defy the neat divisions of America's neo-conservatives.

Kewell's trim figure is the consequence of a strict regimen he has maintained to defy expert medical opinion.

Month-to-month changes in payroll employment are notoriously volatile and defy the consensus forecasts on Wall Street more often than not.

Do not defy the moderators expressed wishes!

Appearing at the dome, this winter haven, it suggests that the blue whale might after all defy the chop of history.

However, other case histories have come to light that defy attempts to explain them.

Must not defy the law would be serious harm to life, not only harm himself and harm others.

And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.

A piece of physicist Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree has been carried into space on the NASA shuttle mission to defy gravity.

No diet has ever been able to defy the laws of thermodynamics.

This game is say also strange, lose defy again stubbornly next dish to pull the Calais to it.

Ignorance or overconfidence allows us to defy gravity for a while, but not forever.

This list comprises the most famous unsolved mysteries known to man that really defy rational explanation or are just outright strange.

It led him to support foxhunting and to resume smoking in old age, just to defy the ban.

He urged intellectuals to defy congressional inquisitions, even at the risk of "jail and economic ruin. "

We've collected 30 examples of adverts that defy the law of gravity to varying degrees. . . . enjoy!

The ambassadors will not defy her wishes if she demands that sanctions remain.

But this one person decided to defy the royal protocol.

Chinese companies are set to defy expectations and raise another $100bn next year through stock market listings, Ernst & Young has forecast.

So strong are his first impressions that sometimes they defy revision even when many other people think differently.

Why else but because of a blind craving for power would he defy even his friends within the government who are begging him to resign?

The firm will continue to lobby lawmakers to pass laws penalising countries that defy American court judgments.

But as we've recently learned, you can defy the laws of financial gravity for only so long.

In his best-selling books, he cited myriad American laws that defy comprehension.

As to that great tree, strong-trunked and broad-armed, it seemed to defy a spring-night frost to harm its still bare boughs .

And though he is not fighting colonial power, he shows signs of an exemplary Gandhian determination to defy authority.

The monks have the public's support and, judging from the past fortnight's protests, the courage and determination to defy the regime.

I defy you to produce one shred of evidence.

We defy death, not to speak of hardship and difficulties.

Mr. Kopold once said to me, Even the Russians cannot defy forever the laws of historical development.

We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

And I defy you to hurt him when I am by, and I defy you to frighten me!

Sometimes the only way to gain your superior's respect is to defy him.

China will befriend ostracised regimes and encourage them to defy international norms .

True Domination. Dominated subjects less likely to defy your will.

No. Currencies defy forecasters' tools, but the dollar will survive global forces for another year.

Ms. Badowski tells Mr. Welch her opinion, even when she knows he's not going to agree. And she will defy his orders on occasion.

A growing but still small contingent of Greeks wants to defy the EU's treaties and quit the euro altogether.

The doomsayers, however, will be disappointed. Japan is well enough run to defy their most dire predictions.

But the judges appear to be betting that he can defy the odds and resolve them all in the next few years .

He thinks that religions must publicly advocate values that defy the secular consensus.

I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves.

For those who decide to defy Dover's letter and accept the threat of legal action, potential bills are high.

Defy gravity, top the leader-board, and unlock key achievements in a new level of insane arcade stunt action.

The two countries are so populous and so diverse as to defy understanding one in terms of the other.

They fail to come to pass partly because America buys into them, then rouses itself to defy them.

People of the world, be courageous, dare to fight, defy difficulties and advance wave upon wave.

It finds expression in the weak daring to defy the strong, and the strong striving for ever better performance.

Defy someone to do something: challenge someone to do something.

"People's complex attitudes toward money often defy economic theory. "

London is Britain's most overvalued region, says Mr Diggle. It cannot defy gravity forever.

Working outside the system to defy it may also fail.

Currencies defy forecasters tools, but the dollarwillsurvive global forces for another year.

Yet the blend has proven box office appeal; his fans span the globe and defy categorization.

Working these cases will defy your worst and lowest expectations of humanity.

Year after year they continue to defy poor prognoses and negative statistics.

They together, with amused defy convey a new generation of young people life state and values.

No matter how you look at the equations of quantum theory, they allow a tiny object to behave in ways that defy intuition.

The latest Eugenides is a very good novel, one that we defy anyone not to devour.

These commitments defy the logic of cost and benefit, investment and return.

We worn them that their actions will have consequences, but still they defy us.

"Civilised" man, on the other hand, tried to defy his constraints and change the world with new inventions, like an engineer.

Full of bravado, young farmers in straw hats vow to defy Colonel Qaddafi's Grad rockets, but as soon as any start landing nearby they flee.

We defy the available methods to estimate them quantitatively.

Defy convention by wearing outrageous clothes.

I defy you to jump that high hurdle.

If the financial crisis taught us anything, it's that bubbles often defy logic.

Why your organisation would purposefully defy the family's wishes, knowing full well that it will lead to yet more anguish, is beyond me.

But there have also been cases of South Sudan hammering militias that dared to defy it.

They defy accurate classification at present.

His style seemed to defy categorization.

Lots of galaxies exhibit two-lobed jets of matter and energy erupting from their cores, but the "Fermi bubbles" defy easy explanation.

Mr Obama's other economic policies defy easy categorisation.

A Dutch MP who called the Koran a "fascist book" has been sent back to the Netherlands after attempting to defy a ban on entering the UK.

Fierce-browned, don't we coolly defy it at anytime for half of lifetime hard struggle?

Wherever the law applies, the wise cannot evade, nor can the brave defy.

It will help you with refactoring that covers a wide scope or has particularly sticky ambiguities that defy a 1: 1 categorization of tokens.

It will take deep courage for Tripoli's residents to openly defy Col. Gadhafi's regime again.

The animals just elected tiger do the king of the jungle, fox some defy spirit, because he thinks the tiger let clever.

But they argue that many crop circles - perhaps 20% - defy rational explanation.

Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's ambassador, called the resolution a "hasty and undue" step devoid of legal basis, and vowed to defy it.

Kratos: Turn back to Olympus beast! I must face Zeus! You defy the god of war? !

The economy could, of course, defy history and turn around soon.

In Iran many women defy the strictures oftheIslamic republic's dress-code with token scarves, shortcoatsandheavy make-up.

But that is still not spur enough for Japan's establishment to defy the domestic farm lobby.

They are wrong to defy the order of the court.

He comes out to defy Israel.

Those few who defy the conventional wisdom are ignored.

Can China help itself when smaller neighbors defy its will?

There is plenty of noise in the markets - random moves that defy trading systems.

Man alone is given that birthright of free will. He alone may defy his God!

After we have humbled ourselves and submitted to God, we are then told to defy the Devil.

However, it won't work when we examine the supernatural stories, which appear to defy scientific knowledge.

It is like there is a desire for oblivion people who constantly defy death and need that kind of adrenaline high.

The hope of a millworker's son who dares to defy the odds.

Don't ignore or defy the tests and challenges that come your way in life.

You may be sent into prison if you defy the law.

Kill me too, if you can. But I defy you.

If Google could defy China, these groups will ask, why not you?

I defy you to find statue or a monument ever erected to anyone because they were realistic.

In the choice of problems for research, it is obvious that we should select those that defy solution through already available techniques.

i despised your father's cruelty, but i was too weak to defy him.

The way to make big money in equities will be to identify those companies that will defy the market's expectation that they will fail.

This indicates the general historical trend and this is what the people aspire, which nobody can defy.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy of mankind.

They will be voting to defy the wishes of their rather ordinary neighbours.

People usually compare chrysanthemum to the hermit and the people who defy difficulties.

To defy Rome, cross the Rubicon, and march south would change his life forever.

The situations I have encountered certainly defy my imagination, and deserve a good laugh.

I do defy thy conjurations, and apprehend thee for a felon here.

Do things together. Defy the distance.

If you defy the law, you may find yourself in prison.

If you defy the law, you may fine yourself in prison.

I defy anyone to object to it.

I defy you to prove that I am wrong.

To resist or defy an authority or a generally accepted convention.

Examples I defy you to prove I have cheated.

The world's nations are diverse in ways that defy easy comparisons.

Unexpectedly dare to defy this of of mandate!

The order for Miers to defy the subpoenas came in a letter from current White House counsel Fred Fielding.

eg. Brave men defy tyrants, instead of cowering before them.

GalnetMIUI supports both Red lens and Green lens Defy devices!

Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defy .

If your boss want you to do the thing which you don't wish , will you defy ?

Do evil things extremely bossy , that be people's civil servant. In the mind if defy, sign Ma3 Ba3 your uniform.

They believe it is essential to defy convention.

Many kids defy their parents and play the computer games for hours everyday.

The army must hope that once the two women have been convicted, their parties will defy them and take part in the elections.

envisage curbs defy envisage v.

Feed by measure and defy physician.

To confront or oppose boldly; defy.

e. g. Though he is an ordinary employee, he dares to defy the authority.

Time to defy public heartbreak, laws of gravity.

But now, if you want to defy the will is not a gang, but the government.

Immediate affairs you defy, you can also future service?

We had to defy them whatever the cost.

I defy you to prove I have cheated.

You will soon do the unthinkable, you will defy the norm, you will make it happen; you will change. . .

But the codes are so obscure and so flexible that they defy rational explanation.

I feel he may defy us there.

The book is about the creative individuals and teams that somehow defy the odds again and again and make their ideas happen.

Both the buyer and the seller expect the consensus to change, but meanwhile they defy the market.

Kratos : You defy the God of War! ?

The fatal snag is that their assurances defy the daily experience of customers.

How dare you defy your masters?

It did, however, completely defy the form book as hosts Juventus ran out 1-0 winners.

Arsene Wenger continues to defy logic by insisting he doesn't need a new goalkeeper.

At Arlington Park, she says, students will learn and everyone will defy the odds so they can shine.

Couples who defy the rule can face fines amounting to several years' salary, have access to social services cut and even go to prison.

How darest you, child, defy your father?

A measure of GM's desperation is that these options defy industrial logic.

If you defy the law, you will be sent to prison.

Have you dried up seas and leveled mountains and left the tiny human heart-strings to defy you?

Mindy, how dare you defy me.

and i won ' t start now . - why do you defy me .

Time is finite and infinite . I defy the indefinite definition.

How long can those criminals continue to defy the law?

Its processes (such as they are) defy automation.

Despite this, Norway continues to defy the whaling ban: 2010's kill quota is the highest in 25 years.

It is a way to defy our obscurity.

So We The People Must Unite, And Defy.