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So improbable did impeachment seem that April that Nixon's Attorney General Richard Kleindienst defied Congress to try it, confident it would relent.
News & World Report . "He has defied conventional wisdom by refusing to travel the country to raise money and court supporters."
Is it the right-wing commissar Norquist, who defied subpoenas from the Thompson Committee about his role laundering campaign contributions for the Republican National Committee (he is contemptuous of the law)?
The son who disobeyed the father would bring disaster upon himself and his family, just as the emperor who defied the “mandate of heaven” or ignored the good of the empire brought ruin upon the nation.
Since then, Saddam Hussein has repeatedly defied the no-fly zones, using his jets, radar, and anti-aircraft weapons to provoke allied pilots.