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Example sentences for: defied

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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.
Then they defied credulity by reversing their message, claiming that the economy was in great shape and that their own policies were responsible for it.
She defied everyone she knew, including her own press secretary, to go on television for a notorious 1995 interview in which she came off as wildly self-pitying and un-self-aware.
Engineer Theodore Judah defied all the experts by plotting a railway link between Sacramento and the East, passing right through the heart of the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky mountains.