It defied phonetics, and it defied his label, Warner Bros.
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And then, having defied their parents, they defied their culinary training as well.
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"Royal Wedding" (1951), in which Astaire defied gravity, and "Singin' in the Rain" (1952), in which Kelly defied the weather, were just two of his crowd-pleasers.
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Galileo had defied the limits of the human eye; Mr Nelson defied the limits of those old dinosaurs, monolithic telescopes, with one huge heavy mirror trained on the heavens.
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Of course, Trump also defied expectations and smashed the competition.
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He habitually defied authority, once kicking his high school principal.
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IN DEATH as in life, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani defied categorisation.
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However, some mosques defied the call, opening for midday prayers.
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A few firms other than Amazon have defied the odds.
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Where are the women who defied convention and police batons?
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Last year, Montenegro defied traditional ally Russia by joining NATO.
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"The doctors say she defied all the odds," Bowes explains.
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The Tories defied the polls and won a shocking majority.
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Washington said a case of mistaken identity defied common sense.
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It wouldn't be the first time she's defied the odds.
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She is a true champion, someone who defied the odds.
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She had already defied long odds by graduating from college.
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What has defied expectations is the slowness of the response.
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Yet one by one, they defied Washington to join Beijing.
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It defied a bit of grammatical gravity, the defendant argued.
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Charismatic and committed, she defied the expectations of both sides.
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In hindsight, there are many reasons Mr. Morrison defied predictions.
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The lawyers defied his orders to return, citing ethical obligations.
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She has defied odds and dazzled observers at every turn.
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But I came back, I defied expectations, and I won.
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She defied so much for so long: depression, alcoholism, age.
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Mulvaney and Pompeo defied House subpoenas for testimony last year.
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"Russia cynically negotiated a ceasefire it instantly defied," she said.
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In the general election, Trump defied every principle of electability.
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And he defied expectations by returning the Olympics last year.
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TC: Have you ever gone rogue and defied the data?
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Oona A. Hathaway: The Soleimani strike defied the U.S. Constitution.
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Henry Falcon, the main candidate opposing Maduro, defied the boycott.
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Carvana has repeatedly defied the market's expectations since going public.
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US v Mangahas The Mangahas decision defied decades of precedent.
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The Liberal Party defied the pollsters to win in Australia.
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Meanwhile, Corbyn once again defied expectations with Labour's relative success.
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Every time she has defied her critics and emerged stronger.
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Members of Congress have defied him recently on foreign policy.
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So he defied both McConnell and Trump by endorsing Moore.
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But as Trump defied the political odds, vanquishing 16 Republican primary rivals — including a very well-funded Jeb Bush — and fortifying that glass ceiling Clinton almost certainly will never break, he also defied the polls.
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The movie has defied the odds on other fronts as well.
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Cummins defied the order, according to school records, and was suspended.
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FDR defied a reluctant Congress to aid a besieged Great Britain.
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Apple, particularly with its 38mm watch, defied the common design philosophy.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - China's economy has long defied the doom-mongers.
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The result defied even the most optimistic predictions by BJP supporters.
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"It was a presentation that defied reality," said one Rubio backer.
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Shiphrah and Puah defied those orders, permitting baby boys to live.
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He's defied the odds of what was possible with Down Syndrome.
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In his first two years in power Mr Ventura defied expectations.
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One protester, Ivan, 28, explained why marchers had defied the police.
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But Burton defied expectations, shaping the Supreme Court's landmark Brown v.
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However, some mosques defied the call, opening for the midday prayers.
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Asia, as he points out, has so far defied premature deindustrialisation.
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But if it does, it will have definitely defied the odds.
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In March, however, the bank defied expectations and kept rates steady.
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They have defied expectations by remaining in charge for so long.
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Republicans defied him repeatedly on a state-level expansion of Obamacare.
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It was definitely art, but it proudly defied classical artistic restrictions.
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But Lil Wayne defied death yet again, and the story continues.
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To say that Natia's defied every statistic doesn't do him justice.
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House Republicans have "defied expectations" before, he noted in an interview.
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But Trump has defied convention and refused to release his returns.
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Still vigorous, he defied judges by re-immersing himself in politics.
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President Abdulla Yameen defied the ruling and the judges were arrested.
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Kerry's announcement was a surprise, one that defied deliberately lowered expectations.
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Apparel maker VF Corporation also defied low expectations of its quarter.
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Australia's commercial property sector has defied a softening in home values.
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The show has defied all odds to get where it is.
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Pollsters struggled to explain why the result had defied the forecasts.
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My own grief did not fit the stages, and it defied
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Astrid antagonized Wim, Witzenhausen told the police, because she defied him.
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But woe to whomever defied him or reneged on a commitment.
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But Trump has defied all sorts of conventional wisdom to date.
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In helping the Jews of Hungary, he defied his government's orders.
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So why has the conflict defied so many efforts at resolution?
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After graduation, he defied his father and enlisted in the Marines.
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In any event, the laws of economics cannot be defied indefinitely.
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But two years later, he defied expectations and came to power.
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Bennett was black, but he defied the music industry's racial typecasting.
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It's why officials at Brebeuf Jesuit defied the archbishop of Indianapolis.
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By and large, they defied his low polling with young voters.
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His most recent novel, "The Buried Giant," defied expectations once again.
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To be sure, this cycle has already defied almost everyone's predictions.
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But Mr. Trump defied them, offering his "full endorsement" in June.
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Dorian has already defied projection models as a wild-card storm.
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The event defied comprehension; proximity, perhaps, offered a path to understanding.
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Some had defied the ban to jump fences and cross anyway.
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THE UPSHOT Rarely has a production so defied — and exceeded — expectations.
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Acquitted of impeachment charges, Trump goes after those who defied him.
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In Manchester, though, the turnout defied even the most ambitious estimate.
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And that she has defied her family by marrying a Jew.
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But both the White House and Mr. Giuliani defied those demands.
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This weekend, he defied all odds to participate in a 5K.
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So things like 22019 and Barack Obama defied their wildest dreams.
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So things like 2008 and Barack Obama defied their wildest dreams.
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But on Mr. Trump's instructions, Mr. McGahn defied the House subpoena.
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The flamboyance with which Six announced his find defied both cultures.
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Overhauling the complex U.S. tax code has defied Washington since 1986.
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Last month, another member of the royal family also defied expectations.
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No one knows that better than Jimmy Carter, who defied all odds 40 years ago to leap from his peanut farm to the White House and defied all odds again two years ago to beat brain cancer.
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The Utah bride and her dad defied wedding conventions at Phillips' Oct.
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The newest addition to the list of "WTF" moments that defied norms?
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John McCain (R-AZ) not defied all expectations at the last minute.
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He defied cultural taboos by touching lepers and dining with shady characters.
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Shenzhen's entrepreneurs defied central planners and demonstrated the power of market forces.
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But almost everything Mr Macron has achieved so far has defied expectations.
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THE Egyptian state has taken several steps lately that have defied expectations.
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The dispute has defied mediation attempts by the United States and Kuwait.
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These entrepreneurs have defied circumstances that would be unthinkable for most Americans.
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Let's be honest: Snapchat has defied conventional design aesthetic and user experience.
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On occasion he has defied the administration in defence of his department.
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But Brown defied the court order to return Veronica to the couple.
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Several local politicians from opposition parties have defied Salvini's anti-migrant policies.
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He defied bookmaker odds of around 90 percent for a hung parliament.
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The tree was a Guatemalan and West Indian hybrid that defied logic.
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The series defied easy characterization, a rare feat for a network comedy.
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Trump screamed at McMaster on the phone for being defied, reported Bloomberg.
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Like several other OMB officials, Duffey defied a congressional subpoena on Nov.
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One player defied his team and had surgery on his damaged shoulder.
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Three Republican senators have defied McConnell and agreed to meet with Garland.
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His idea, which defied convention, was to train less and race more.
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Big, sweeping head tilts followed by ocular lolls that defied basic biology.
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One thing is certain: he has defied expectations, both positive and negative.
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Bitcoin has defied the critics repeatedly, being declared "dead" many times over.
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The Sanders win defied all the polls, and nobody really knows why.
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New York (CNN Business)Sean Hannity defied his own words on Monday.
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Tyron Woodley defied the odds to become the champion with one punch.
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Her bold persona defied the conventions of Pakistan, a deeply conservative society.
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He has defied the conventional wisdom in D.C. throughout his first-term.
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Obama defied people who questioned if they were good enough to succeed.
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Donald Trump had just defied the odds and captured the White House.
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In her work, she defied social norms and championed the island's independence.
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Susan Collins and Mitt Romney — defied the president to vote alongside Democrats.
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Both women have now defied their agreements by talking to the media.
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Hundreds defied warnings to drop their homemade weapons and refused to surrender.
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Abu Mazen's hands have been tied by protesters who defied his leadership.
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He defied congressional subpoenas but likely will be acquitted of obstructing Congress.
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He stubbornly defied foreign intervention, angering both Iran and the United States.
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When have you defied a stereotype of some aspect of your identity?
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Dr. Moir's radical and iconoclastic theories defied conventional views of the disease.
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They also accused her of instigating investigations against teachers who defied her.
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Nixon defied the committee's request for tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
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Growing up, No Name frequently defied authority at home and in school.
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But he has defied the odds and is a happy, active teenager.
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Mulvaney had already been subpoenaed by House committees and defied the summons.
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But her campaign has defied the doubters to become a fundraising juggernaut.
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Jennifer Lopez, on the other hand, defied gravity with her curled updo.
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The women sworn into office this year who defied all expectations — Reps.
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And in 2008, doctors told her that she had defied the odds.
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There was no similar backlash to male candidates who defied gender stereotypes.
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On the other hand, Mr. Trump has successfully defied conventional wisdom before.
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Donald Trump defied the odds to win the 22018 US presidential election.
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He defied Miami's front office a few years later to return to Cleveland.
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She defied classification, which makes her ripe for a new surge of recognition.
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Four years on, Abadi has defied the expectations of an army of skeptics.
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How has Australia managed a feat that has defied most other rich countries?
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When she defied physics, and we cried out of sheer terror and excitement.
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Congress defied the American people's wishes to try to remove him from office.
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Even so, a slew of other musicians have defied boycott calls and performed.
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"This disease has defied every therapy that's been tested so far," he says.
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A settler in Flushing who defied this order was banished back to Holland.
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"We defied everyone's expectations for his campaign," Nehlen said in his concession speech.
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But Bolton's former deputy, Charles Kupperman, has so far defied his own subpoena.
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He defied repeated calls, including one from his own party, to step down.
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Separatist lawmakers defied court orders and held a referendum on independence in October.
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Like his past releases, the work -- generally praised by music critics -- defied genres.
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Arpaio repeatedly defied the law, and engaged in unconstitutional racial profiling of Latinos.
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The results threatened a fragile streak of expansion that has defied global turbulence.
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Then again, the businessman's performance every step of the way has defied convention.
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Leicester City defied 5,000-to-1 odds to win England's Premier League title.
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Greitens had previously defied calls for his resignation, including from top Missouri Republicans.
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McGahn defied the Judiciary Committee's subpoena at the behest of the White House.
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The Chinese Communist Party has defied predictions and maintained its hold on power.
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So far, Mr. Trump has defied all the traditional rules of political media.
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Mr. Trump's victory defied late polls showing Hillary Clinton with a modest edge.
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Well, the race has defied my expectations and hit a new moral low.
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The two defied convention, prejudice and opposition from both their families to marry.
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The course defied every harsh condition, natural and political, that Rio has presented.
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Hundreds of Birmingham's children defied orders against demonstrating, filling up the city's jails.
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But his avocation defied the stereotype of a vengeful killer: He enjoyed embroidering.
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And yellow vest protesters defied the ban and continued to protest the government.
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One gauge in particular shows how much the economy has defied downbeat forecasts.
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Jerry Falwell Jr. defied expectations when he supported Donald J. Trump in 2000.
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Never-Trumper and Trump-skeptical voters defied conventional wisdom last week: They mattered.
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Only because a rogue researcher defied myriad scientific and ethical norms and guidelines.
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In this crowd, at least, the cheerful yellow sponge had defied his doubters.
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But Mr. Huggett thought the diversity of children's interest defied such unified explanation.
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Their relationship defied convention, and yet it survived war and bitter family resentment.
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But Swarm defied the FCC and put its satellites on the launch anyway.
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He defied expectations and fooled everyone on his way to the White House.
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Sabah had defied many people's advice in taking her daughter to Al-Bayrouni.
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He has often been underestimated, and has consistently defied expectations since entering politics.
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It is a crisis that has defied nearly every attempt to solve it.
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I couldn't explain all the ways in which her discovery defied the odds.
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Additionally, the administration defied all House subpoenas seeking documents related to the episode.
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To do so will show the important ways in which Roger defied stereotypes.
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But Tesla defied the odds, and it has its controversial leader to thank.
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He defied a House request for documents; he did not defy a subpoena.
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Unlike many state-level Republicans who have long defied the president, like Gov.
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Trump has defied all expectations that he would resign and endures despite impeachment.
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That's how Rick Santorum defied the odds and won the 2012 Iowa Caucus.
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Ja&aposbari has responded to skin graft treatments, and has defied the odds.
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The exhibitions have defied most attempts around the world to shut them down.
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To him, choosing No. 1 for his fresh start would have defied logic.
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They defied barriers for the privilege of offering their desperately needed technical abilities.
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Trump defied all precedent in not releasing his tax returns before the election.
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In signing the bill, Scott defied opposition from the National Rifle Association (NRA).
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It defied classification, occupying a no man's land between cancer and immune disease.
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Trump has defied a decades-old tradition of presidents voluntarily releasing their returns.
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He has defied the Constitution by soliciting foreign interference in the political process.
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These hill-country farmers defied the greedy plantation masters who split the Union.
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In acting so muscularly, Mr. Obama defied both conservative critics and public sentiment.
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Earlier this week, the miners defied an army deadline to leave the mine.
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Mr Macron has so far this year defied all the rules governing French politics.
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Lyft has, in the past, defied predictions about when it will launch its IPO.
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He has defied long presidential tradition by refusing to make his tax returns public.
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I think Jahi will be remembered forever because she defied all of the odds.
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Ex-White House counsel Don McGahn defied a subpoena from the House Judiciary Committee.
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In doing so, Mr Zuma defied warnings from his own party and the markets.
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Still, it is clear that many Republicans in Congress have defied President Trump's wishes.
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Needless to say, the idiosyncratic Hughes is not a man used to being defied.
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Any attempt to refute false charges defied the party's will and thus confirmed guilt.
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Days before the presidential election, Mr Christie defied his party by welcoming Barack Obama.
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That defied most analysts' expectations that last year's rally would run out of steam.
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This is the ugly history that Simone defied with her beautiful gold medal performance.
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In both February and March, the drop in apprehensions defied a 17-year trend.
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It was big, brash, and bold, but it defied the marketability of its contemporaries.
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In many ways, as in the past, they've defied a lot of the textbook.
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If it happens, it would be the second year U.S. economic growth defied expectations.
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This administration has always put forward rosy economic projections that have defied economic consensus.
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The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America's Role in the World.
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But growth in both exports and imports defied those expectations and accelerated from April.
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The frenzied activity has also defied the normal slowdown seen in the summer months.
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When she defied the order to draw blood, Payne quickly walked over to her.
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The US has long defied China's assertion of sovereignty of waters in the region.
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It is a deeply complicated issue, one that has so far defied most solutions.
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The relaxed security defied the high levels of violence and crime in the country.
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Trump defied Tillerson, announcing in June that the U.S. would withdraw from the accord.
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Herrera, a Rule 5 pick before last season, has defied convention to be there.
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The Atlantic has reported that Pruitt defied the White House to grant the raises.
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De León seems intensely competitive with Brown and has defied him on legislative issues.
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She had seen him play in college, but his skill set defied easy description.
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"It has defied a lot of the slowdown" But cracks are starting to show.
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Strategists say the , which defied all expectations for a correction during the late summer.
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He defied gender and genre norms in an industry that values marketability, not individuality.
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How do you assess Merkel's record on issues where she defied her political camp?
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While the clientele was mostly young guys, other customers defied the vape-douche stereotype.
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And that mind-set could not be readily defied, as President Trump has learned.
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Mr. Conditt's world was, like the Austin region itself, multifaceted and defied easy categorization.
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In Montana, a group called the Freemen defied the FBI and another standoff ensued.
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Mr. Shkreli repeatedly defied Mr. Brafman's admonitions to keep quiet and avoid the limelight.
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It has issued civil summonses to 12 people it said have defied the order.
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Despite the arrest warrant Bashir defied the court by visiting several ICC member states.
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North Korea has defied past predictions of collapse, and one does not appear imminent.
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He gave his name, rank and serial number and defied his tormentors with curses.
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The tournament has defied convention despite being contested at an old-world golf club.
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The authorities detained several fishermen who had defied warnings and put to sea anyway.
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Twenty-one members of the governing Conservative Party defied Johnson by approving the bill.
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Though it finished second in the election, it defied widespread expectations by denying Mrs.
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But he was "stunned" by just how much it defied his expectations, he says.
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Silicon Valley has stood firm behind Apple since it defied the order last week.
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Héloïse has stubbornly defied her mother's wishes and refuses to sit for a portrait.
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But Arrow, The CW's first Greg Berlanti-produced superhero series, defied all the odds.
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Voters who once defied political gravity have now come crashing down on Democrats' heads.
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Several of those current and former officials have defied those orders and testified anyway.
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But in 2014, the same judge said his order had been mocked and defied.
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He popularized wetsuits that defied the cold to create an endless summer for surfers.
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But many protesters defied the police by marching anyway, as they have done before.
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Protesters have constantly defied the ban, which they said was designed to suppress them.
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Fox News has defied the downward trends, notching its highest-rated year in 2017.
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Traveling across Australia's vast interior, our photojournalist found a land that defied easy explanations.
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An exhibition of Italian Radical design showcases household objects that energetically defied good taste.
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They overran a German line that had defied attacks by French and British forces.
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The Dionne quintuplets then miraculously defied the odds: They not only survived, but thrived.
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He imagined a world that defied the social order created by an elite whiteness.
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Mr. Arpaio defied the injunction for years, boasting about it to the news media.
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But after the government nixed AT&T's takeover attempt, T-Mobile defied its doubters.
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New Hampshire lawmakers just defied their own governor and voted to abolish capital punishment.
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Cai Qi is a striking example of someone whose career has thus defied political convention.
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And he can work wonders that only a few decades ago would have defied belief.
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov has defied the order and now says he has a workaround.
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It's not only that we're small people that have defied the limitations of our size.
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He defied the officials to catch him in the act and got away with it.
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Tria has pledged to keep the deficit under control, having defied calls for higher spending.
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Kennedy, a 1988 appointee of President Ronald Reagan, amassed a record that defied ready labels.
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Similarly, after the inauguration, some national parks went rogue and defied President Trump on Twitter.
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"Mr Costa has certainly defied expectations," says Antonio Barroso of Teneo Intelligence, a risk consultancy.
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It was 2001, and Dr. Tang's observation defied everything then known about light-emitting molecules.
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Here was the president, using charged language in a context that defied its actual meaning.
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Emmanuel Macron defied all the rules to win the presidency at the age of 20173.
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Earlier this week, the miners defied a deadline from the army to leave the mine.
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Bitcoin has defied market expectations before, but in 2017, it didn't just become more valuable.
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Its recent growth has defied official projections produced by the Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS).
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"He's defied all the odds," Chad, 53, a Scottsdale, Arizona, real estate broker tells PEOPLE.
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Pai also turned some critics' arguments on their head in a way that defied logic.
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Government-bond yields there have defied two decades of forecasts that they will move higher.
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"But construction is an industry that appears to have defied Adam Smith," says Mr Luyten.
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The Peugeot maker defied the downturn with a record 8.7% profit margin unveiled on Wednesday.
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Thousands of protesters defied police orders Sunday to march through the center of the city.
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In business he readily filed lawsuits or defied those who would hold him to contracts.
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Luckily for Trump, in some of those instances, his subordinates defied or ignored his commands.
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Since they defied General Motors convention, you might imagine the two were punished or reprimanded.
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He has defied long odds: only one in 1,126 applicants makes it to the NDA.
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Jobs was notorious for his "reality distortion field," a rules-bending logic that defied practicality.
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" Most of her life, she says, she has defied suggestions that's "it's not your turn.
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Kenya's ban on three private television stations defied a court order to lift the move.
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Comprehensive tax reform is so complex that it has defied Congresses and presidents since Reagan.
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Off it, he defied the Nazis and refused to be courted by their totalitarian regime.
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She also defied calls to have her office quickly investigate certain police shootings in California.
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Since then, emboldened by those early missteps, political actors across the spectrum have defied Trump.
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Of course, months remain before voting begins, and this political year has defied many predictions.
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The larger political question, which has defied resolution for 70 years, will take much longer.
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Though Ms. Mamlok often employed the techniques of serial music, her style defied ready categorization.
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A few dozen human-rights activists defied the ban; police sprayed them with rubber bullets.
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What was interesting about Tuesday night, particularly in Virginia, was women really defied conventional wisdom.
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Employees in Switzerland this week defied management and held a meeting on unionization, Bloomberg reported.
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Since opening on July 26, "Once Upon a Time" has defied all 2019 moviegoing logic.
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He later said that he was proud of having defied the pressure to look strong.
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Bitcoin has defied gravity this year, and it's taken one retail stock along with it.
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Young defied early predictions by defeating Bayh by 21625 points, 2900 percent to 220006 percent.
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The motion was defeated, but dozens of Labour legislators defied their leader and backed it.
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While many protesters left the symbolic site peacefully, some defied the order and remained behind.
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On the other hand, Trump has defied just about every expectation of his impending demise.
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Bharara said on Saturday he had been fired after he defied a request to resign.
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Born to a wealthy Vienna family, he defied its wishes to pursue a racing career.
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Trump has defied political norms ever since the start of his campaign two years ago.
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So what comes next, now that Mr. Trump has defied political convention and political correctness?
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My father, Fred, and others who defied the military orders were criminally charged and imprisoned.
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On June 238, 22015, the elevator was the scene of a killing that defied explanation.
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It was welcoming, never otherizing, and defied the trope that black history began with slavery.
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Lagging pay in the lengthy recovery defied logic, and then wage growth suddenly picked up.
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The outbreak began in August and defied early expectations that it would be contained quickly.
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In many ways, Israel has defied expectations and done remarkably well over the past decade.
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She said that while she knew the odds were low, she had defied them before.
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As mayor, he defied the federal government in backing the legalization of same-sex marriage.
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But Mr. Sisi defied that order and put it to a vote in Parliament anyway.
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Angela described a set of diffuse symptoms—fatigue, muscle aches, cognitive impairment—that defied diagnosis.
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Critic's Notebook Philosophers said the Holocaust defied representation, that art could not render its horrors.
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Franklin struggled with her weight for decades as she defied white, male notions of femininity.
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The pharmaceutical lobby, a dependable source of campaign contributions, is not readily defied in Washington.
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The bottom line: The country had long defied the usual left-right divisions across Europe.
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Swedish culture minister Amanda Lind defied Chinese diplomatic threats of "countermeasures" to present the prize.
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Swedish culture minister Amanda Lind defied Chinese diplomatic threats of "countermeasures" to present the prize.
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Officer Shelby's case was murkier than many others, but the shooting still defied easy explanation.
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"Brexit" and Trump exposed the folly of pollsters; Leicester City defied the naysaying of pundits.
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The differences among those productions reflect a year of shows that defied categorization and expectation.
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Routine dysfunction has defied White House chief of staff John Kelly's efforts to impose order.
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Brian Kemp defied Trump by appointing an Atlanta businesswoman to take a US Senate seat.
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These women raised me, allowed me to have an education and defied all those traditions.
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" Father Clements said: "If the church had blocked me, I would not have defied them.
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He redid the wiring and plumbing, and defied conventional wisdom to install his own boiler.
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The Undiagnosed Diseases Network takes on the toughest cases, patients whose symptoms have defied explanation.
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Still, Chinese lawyers have said online that the findings in the official report defied logic.
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They defied a lot of our stereotypes about what captains of industry should look like.
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What's more, many of the nominees of color defied expectations in securing their respective nods.
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It will say that Comey defied authority on more than one occasion according to the report.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin defied Obama's predictions his venture in Syria would end in a quagmire.
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Yentl defied those expectations…and I guess I did, too, by wanting to direct this movie.
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Thousands of people have been jailed, including several prominent secular activists who defied the protest ban.
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Schaeuble said Merkel would have no choice but to fire Seehofer if he defied her orders.
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Over the past 18 years, boy from Sheffield, Iowa has defied medical limitations at every turn.
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I'd say my heart has defied the odds: I'm 103 and a professional singer and dancer.
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He defied Vanderbilt and appeared on NPR's Science Friday to discuss the subpoena and his research.
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"We have made it every step of the way, defied expectations because of people," Klobuchar said.
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Britain's labor market has defied the approach of Brexit, helping households whose spending drives the economy.
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Congress approved the deal but Santos has defied calls by the opposition for a new referendum.
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But Mr. Trump and Mr. Kim have both already defied conventional wisdom about what is possible.
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That defied expectations, and shares in the company fell about 8 percent in after-hours trading.
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Democrats defied the traditional midterm norms that year and picked up five seats in the House.
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Bernstein analyst Sara Senatore said U.S. comparable sales in the quarter had defied her worst fears.
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Britain's labour market has defied the approach of Brexit, helping households whose spending drives the economy.
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Never mind that the NRA has also sought the hides of politicians who have defied it.
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Zoom, a relatively under-the-radar tech unicorn, has defied expectations with its initial public offering.
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The dollar has defied years of efforts by foreign governments to end their reliance on it.
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Melania, 47, defied critics in her navy shoes, which matched her turtleneck sweater and cropped trousers.
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"Munakata defied the norm through his physical act of creation and his guiding philosophy," Libertson notes.
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Seoul had ordered it closed after Pyongyang defied international warnings and tested a long-range rocket.
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How a president reacts to tragedy used to matter politically, but Trump has defied traditional expectations.
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RYANAIR, EUROPE'S largest low-cost carrier, has long defied conventional wisdom when it comes to branding.
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The fact that Britain has defied its closest ally will certainly give some succour to Huawei.
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In this sense he identified with James Baldwin, the black writer who defied every simple definition.
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But, Bradley's activism defied modern stereotypes that exclude social or political input from athletes' net worth.
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Their outperformance has even defied data indicating Europe's growth acceleration may be running out of steam.
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The "goats" here stand in for the selfish, cold, and uncaring people who defied God's word.
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Other tourists reportedly defied park wardens and stepped on the green, plucking flowers for photos ops.
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In falling to Trump, all three had defied both the polls and their own electoral histories.
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And then, of course, there was Schindler's List, his effort to depict what for some defied
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The nation's two largest markets have defied forecasts for a slowdown or price correction for years.
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Prince's catalog was huge, and defied neat summation — he was outrageously good at so many things.
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Current law is, if not easily broken, then often defied in spirit and gamed on technicalities.
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But Theresa May has displayed extraordinary resilience and defied many previous predictions that she cannot survive.
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Her "unapologetic progressive" agenda -- which defied a generation of more centrist stances from top state Democrats.
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The expansion defied market expectations and stood in contrast to official manufacturing data released on Thursday.
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She had defied both convention and biology to reflect the truth of who she really was.
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Macron defied all the pundits when he launched his audacious grab for the French political centre.
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Which other sports teams have defied such odds for month after month over an entire season?
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Though Yellen and her cohorts have defied their critics' skepticism before, this time could be tougher.
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But unless Britton was hurt, it defied logic to use six other relievers and not him.
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A handful of classic Dow stocks have defied gravity in 2017, pushing the index to records.
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Northam has so far defied calls to resign from a range of current and former lawmakers.
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The online retailer has defied skeptics for years, building its market value with virtually no earnings.
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The luxury segment, which was sheltered from the demise of tax incentives, has defied the downturn.
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The community stood in solidarity and defied a divisive national climate to say yes to humanity.
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North Korea's nuclear program, first detected nearly 30 years ago, has defied a long-term solution.
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I saw my family as strange aliens whose foreign customs, rites and very language defied comprehension; . . .
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The Texas residents wed on March 12, 2016, in a union that truly defied the odds.
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Her come-up, in other words, fiercely defied both race and gender expectations of her time.
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The team defied the odds in Italy, its unexpected run to the quarterfinals transfixed the nation.
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But thousands defied orders to submit themselves to immigration processing and instead continued their journey north.
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FLY GIRLS: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History, by Keith O'Brien.
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Comstock has defied the party on at least one major item — the House Obamacare repeal bill.
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In an essay at the time, I tried to explain how the party defied the odds.
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And he may still get re-elected.) (He defied a judge's orders to stop racial profiling.
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" Drawing on stereotypes she'd always defied, she insisted that "ladies don't do that kind of stuff.
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He entered the country unimpeded despite having defied a court-imposed order not to leave Venezuela.
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The music can be comically loud, like the hi-NRG goth-SoulCycle assault that defied Shazaming.
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Under her four-year producing deal with Sony, which is expiring, Ms. Pascal defied the odds.
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He hit a shot-clock-beating 20-footer that defied all reason when it fell home.
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In 2017, Catalan leaders defied courts and conducted a referendum on secession and then declared independence.
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FLY GIRLS How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation HistoryBy Keith O'Brien Illustrated.
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Montenegro defied another historic Slavic and Orthodox Christian ally, Russia, when it joined NATO in 2017.
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Still, Mr. Castile's death has defied some of the racial fault lines seen in other shootings.
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The range of ideologies those organizations represented further defied efforts to classify Mr. Leiken politically. Prof.
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That year also defied the usual trend in March, when crossings historically increase as weather improves.
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The Aaron Hernandez story thus remains a tragedy that has defied, and continues to, simple explanation.
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Heavily-indebted Lebanon has defied gravity for years but may soon find itself falling to earth.
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He has successfully defied the Western liberal human rights agenda, focusing instead on trade and security.
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It also defied most every form of conventional wisdom about who can win a presidential primary.
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The successful premiere of Beach's first major work, an expansive Mass in E-flat, defied stereotypes.
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Apple defied a court order to assist the F.B.I., but another company bypassed the phone's encryption.
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The relocation of the turbines defied a contractual agreement not to violate international sanctions, Siemens said.
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There was an atavistic pull to Piper's performance that both commanded attention and defied easy analysis.
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AUDACITYHow Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will PrevailBy Jonathan Chait240 pp.
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Trump defied every prediction by coming from nowhere to win the presidency on his first attempt.
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Sandy testified before House impeachment investigators in a closed-door deposition, while Duffey defied a subpoena.
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Spirit was so plucky, it defied that 90-day plan and operated until March 22, 2010.
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Mulvaney, Blair and Duffey all defied subpoenas from a House committee and Bolton was not subpoenaed.
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Trump is "a president who has systematically defied the norms that define his office," he adds.
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Before any bulldozers have to be defied, some hard political and legal battles may lie ahead.
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Ida B. Wells defied the order and marched with the delegation from Illinois, her home state.
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The expansion defied concerns that hurricanes in Texas and Florida would put a damper on output.
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Born into slavery in 1856, Flipper defied racial prejudice and institutional power to survive West Point.
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That fight led to Shulkin's ouster in March since he defied the administration's wishes for privatization.
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However two boats have defied the ban in the past two weeks, bringing migrants into Lampedusa.
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Assad, it seems, has already defied Trump's "heavy price" warning against the use of chemical weapons.
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Ted Cruz defied weeks of polling to beat Donald Trump in the Iowa caucuses on Monday night.
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Both are strong black women who have defied industry standards and have taken the world by storm.
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Congress defied President Donald Trump in voting to suspend military aid for the kingdom's war in Yemen.
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In the process he has defied UN attempts to convene a national peace conference, now indefinitely delayed.
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Yet millions of Afghans have defied Taliban threats and waited, often for hours, to cast their votes.
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Todd VanDerWerff: At every turn, the final season of The Americans has defied expectations — usually thrillingly so.
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Morrison's coalition defied forecasts to be re-elected on Saturday in what he called a political miracle.
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"Ordinance defied common sense, allowing men to use women's bathroom/locker room for instance," the governor tweeted.
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Morrison's coalition defied forecasts to be re-elected on Saturday in what he called a political miracle.
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But Morrison on Saturday defied those odds, securing re-election in what he described as a miracle.
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As much as Trump has defied traditional political expectations, it is difficult to imagine him surviving that.
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Protesters have also regularly defied the anti-mask law, and dozens have been arrested for doing so.
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Some good news, though: Porkchop has defied biology and survived the 25 years since the show debuted.
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And down-ballot, Democrats defied expectations too, coming within striking distance of retaking Virginia's House of Delegates.
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As she explored the Bureau's building, also known as the Oldest House, what she encountered defied explanations.
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His stunning victory rocked the world and defied the predictions of most pollsters, political pundits and correspondents.
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The EU always defied a single idea and managed to muddle through with a string of fudges.
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Much like high-top fades and short shorts, vinyl has defied the odds and made a comeback.
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When the Mothers and their supporters defied orders to disperse, riot police doused them with tear-gas.
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Here are a few former sports stars who have defied the trope of the bankrupt retired athlete.
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"It's much easier to hear about the success stories and people who defied the odds," she says.
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In a further sign of lost control, four cabinet ministers defied their party whip, yet escaped sanction.
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But the country is now spellbound as their team has defied expectations, cruising to the quarter finals.
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U in the top spot, the list's author Jeremy Parish defied conventional wisdom with well argued points.
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Thanks to a robust components business, Samsung defied expectations, posting its largest profit gains in three years.
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Kathleen Baker defied Crohn's disease and her doctors when she took silver during Monday's 100-meter backstroke.
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I really wanted to pick something that embodied this journey and it's true — he defied the odds.
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But young protesters in Be, a working-class neighborhood in eastern Lome, defied the ban on Wednesday.
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While most corgis have a white trim, Winston has defied genetics by having an all-white coat.
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Where do you go after decades of defied expectations and scathing criticism of big business and government?
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Page's appearance on Friday came after she defied a subpoena to appear before the House on Wednesday.
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But Iran has deliberately defied the nuclear agreement since President Trump's withdrawal from the deal last year.
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As with any art of imposed constraint, we look for the moments when the constraints are defied.
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CNN reported on June 13 that Trump had defied his advisors when he tweeted about the race.
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Outwardly stolid and unimaginative, Mr Rajoy is a shrewd strategist who has repeatedly defied rivals and expectations.
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In Britain, the political economist Thomas Hodgskin similarly defied the crude contemporary contrast between socialism and liberalism.
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The Virginia Democrat tweeted out a video Friday night in which he defied calls for his departure.
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Some members of both political parties and State Department officials stood aghast as Obama defied their recommendations.
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Mr. Cuomo must now deal with the case of a district attorney who simply defied his order.
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Of course, not everyone is a doomsayer and China has defied predictions of a crash so far.
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Trump has defied the norms and expectations of the presidency, and American politics more generally, and succeeded.
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It turned out that the Brotherhood pillagers had defied their own group by decimating the Hound's settlement.
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He has repeatedly defied predictions that this or that controversy would do severe damage to his campaign.
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Yang has defied some expectations by staying in the race longer than some prominent lawmakers and governors.
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But some artists and organizations have defied boycott calls: Madonna will be a guest performer at Eurovision.
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It used to be it would show off things like a three-screen laptop that defied logic.
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But young protesters in Be, a working-class neighborhood in eastern Lome, defied the ban on Wednesday.
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Police in riot gear used pepper spray against demonstrators and arrested those who defied orders to disperse.
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Zeal & Ardor defied all odds this year with his genre-decimating debut full-length, Devil is Fine.
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Bernard Hopkins has defied both the odds and father time throughout his 30-year professional boxing career.
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Other tribes joined in, setting off a senseless war that has defied numerous agreements and cease-fires.
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Since starting Bumble in 73, Ms. Herd, 29, has defied just about every tech start-up convention.
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Mike Trout, the Angels star, tweeted condolences to Skaggs's family and said the team's sadness defied words.
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Because outside of New England's ceaseless ascendancy, this indeed has been an N.F.L. season that defied convention.
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Rapper Kamaiyah was arrested Friday after she defied TSA agents who demanded she take off her headgear.
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In tackling immigration, the group is taking on an issue that for years has defied congressional solutions.
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As we entered, he stood to welcome us with a spry enthusiasm that defied his considerable age.
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Bengals In the fourth quarter, Flacco connected with Brown on a 21-yard touchdown that defied belief.
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The demonstrations intensified on Saturday, when hoards of people defied a police ban on that day's gathering.
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It's the story of Dunkirk: the fishing smacks and pleasure boats that defied the Nazi war machine.
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He defied the tradition by moving forward both on an appellate court nominee from Minnesota whom Sen.
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The rank markets of raw flesh and living sea creatures still defied the advances of sterile supermarkets.
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Some bar owners said they defied the curfew order because the devastated city needed business from tourists.
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He has defied the expectations of many, but he still faces a tricky vote in Britain's parliament.
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THE STONE The philosopher, who died this month, defied stereotypes by remaining true to his moral sensibility.
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Ayanna Pressley's win this week stunned political insiders, defied all polling and upset the political status quo.
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The inspector general of Price's HHS is looking into whether the chartered flights defied any federal regulations.
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Arpaio was convicted of criminal contempt after he defied a judge's order to stop racially profiling Latinos.
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" When Farrow repeatedly defied an instruction, Holbrooke erupted into a tirade — "I know you think you're special.
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That day, crowds of protesters defied a police ban on their march and clashed with riot officers.
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Mind you, we've heard Harry and Meghan defied the Queen's wishes with the timing of their announcement.
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Tens of thousands of people defied a police ban and marched through several central neighborhoods on Saturday.
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"The changes were shocking at first," said Zuhayra Mohamed, who defied her parents to join the protests.
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Brian Kemp appointed Loeffler to the seat last month in a move that defied President Donald Trump.
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Some of the officials named in the emails defied House subpoenas to give depositions behind closed doors.
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A former law professor, she has defied convention in a region with a long history of strongmen.
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Manafort, unlike Cohen, has defied federal prosecutors and may, in fact, be counting on a presidential pardon.
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Australians defied their right-leaning government in 2017 to overwhelmingly approve a referendum to institute marriage equality.
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Britain's economy defied forecasts of a recession after the 2016 referendum vote to leave the European Union.
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TJ Maxx is known to be one of the few retailers to have defied the retail apocalypse.
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"It was during the Revolution that Jackson first confronted and defied an arrogant elite," Mr. Trump said.
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If Mr Trump defied the judges, Republican senators would be under severe pressure to break with him.
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LEBANON Heavily-indebted Lebanon has defied gravity for years but may soon find itself falling to earth.
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All three effectively defied orders from the White House and Pompeo not to cooperate with the investigation.
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AUDACITY: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail, by Jonathan Chait.
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Girls were told that if they defied Garcia's desires "they were going against god", the complaint says.
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Biden has defied all odds and continues to lead the pack in most national and state polls.
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They defied government curfews, internet shutdowns and the divisive politics that have kept them apart for years.
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It defied many warnings by police and the media that the convention protests would burst into chaos.
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Behind Trump's bluster, they argue, was a winning political platform that attacked elites and defied GOP orthodoxy.
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Lance Armstrong defied the impossible and wrote an extraordinary tale of triumph over adversity into our collective history.
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Bouchard agreed, and was left to regret it after the Patriots defied the odds to win in overtime.
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The church believed some of these traditions defied the will of God and were incompatible with its teachings.
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Third, Congress can go to court seeking an order compelling Barr to testify, punishable by imprisonment if defied.
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As a young hotshot in the 1960s, Robertson had defied the engineering establishment to erect the iconic skyscrapers.
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Girls were told that if they defied Garcia's desires "they were going against god," according to the complaint.
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Some people in her Indian community said she should stay home and claim benefits, but Dhanda defied them.
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Whatever the outcome is, experts say MacDonald has defied the odds just to get his appeal this far.
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Page defied that subpoena to appear on Wednesday before the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform Committees.
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In July 2015 it defied doubters, including the Saudis, by capturing Aden, once the British Empire's busiest port.
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Besides appearing to defy time, Prince defied genres his entire career, and last Thursday night was no exception.
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But this turn also defied everything we've been primed to accept and love about Vanessa as a character.
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He's the supremely confident entrepreneur who defied naysayers and built skyscrapers that now make up the Manhattan skyline.
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There's no denying it has been a phenomenal success from a company that has repeatedly defied its critics.
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In the spring, G2 was a group of scrappy upstarts who defied expectations and took the EU crown.
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In his final years as president he defied the court, visiting friendly nations including several ICC member states.
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An influential Iraqi Shiite cleric and politician, Moktada al-Sadr, has defied Iran and sided with the protesters.
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Trump has defied the conventional norms of transparency that we expect from our presidents since before his election.
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AS WITH many satellites orbiting Trump world, Omarosa Manigault-Newman's exalted position in the White House defied explanation.
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The House Judiciary Committee sued Mr. McGahn in August after he defied its subpoena on Mr. Trump's instructions.
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What's happening: For almost a decade, weak wage growth has defied the economic recovery and has bedeviled workers.
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Yang defied expectations throughout the campaign, climbing into the race's mid-tier in the second half of 2019.
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the president of Algeria, defied protesters by registering to run for a fifth term in office.
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In September 2018 its populist government unveiled budget plans for 2019 that defied the European Union's fiscal rules.
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In 2012, the Sun defied the royal family and printed pictures of Harry cavorting naked in Las Vegas.
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Catalonia&aposs Parliament defied Spanish authorities and voted in favor of a declaration of independence on Oct. 27.
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Monster Hunter World has defied expectations to become one of the most successful games in the developer's history.
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Nearly 40 cases of measles were traced to unvaccinated children in one such school that defied the ban.
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Senate Republicans defied the odds Tuesday and beat back Democrats' all-out push to win the Senate majority.
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Surely even a man who defied death found rolling with Demian Maia a singularly suffocating and deflating experience.
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FACEBOOK has defied even optimists' projections of how big the 12-year-old firm could one day become.
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In 1798, Irish rebels defied the Crown, aided by France; the insurgents of 1916 took help from Germany.
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Four women who publicly defied the still unreformed ban on female driving were barred from contesting local elections.
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Bronson's infield does not have a fence, and Howell had defied track rules by going into the infield.
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He defied federal law and the Constitution to give amnesty to approximately 22012 million illegal immigrants, 43 million.
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But recently the brand has seen success — it announced favorable earnings for its first quarter that defied expectations.
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How Michael Jackson's tilt defied gravity Fans around the world have tried to imitate Michael Jackson's signature moves.
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People in the Kashmir valley, on the Indian-controlled side, defied curfews to turn out for his funeral.
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Snyder defied those calls, saying he intends to help Flint and its residents recover from the water crisis.
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He defied federal law and the Constitution to give amnesty to approximately 003 million illegal immigrants, 200 million.
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Mr. Mulvaney defied a House subpoena on Friday morning, citing instructions that he was absolutely immune from testifying.
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That would not be the case if Arpaio's pardon were allowed to stand, because Arpaio defied judges' orders.
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George W. Bush defied the caricature of himself as a lightweight by holding his own against Al Gore.
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The Democratic strategist admitted that the outspoken billionaire has so far defied all predications about his future, however.
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The founder who defied industry norms, got rejected from the bank twice, and bootstrapped his business to success
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The book defied the tradition, Ms. Sontag wrote, of photographing women for their beauty rather than their character.
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He defied the international condemnation, saying Brunei is a "fair" country that was "safe and harmonious" for visitors.
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Although Elizabeth defied gender roles through her pugilistic activities, she was not condemned by all of England's society.
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Educational videos like this one teach children that Columbus defied conventional wisdom and proved the world was round.
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Some Linux developers protested the change, claiming it defied the core values of the popular open source project.
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Charles Kupperman, the former deputy national security adviser, defied a House subpoena to testify to Congress on Monday.
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Chait asserts that the 2016 race has defied expectations, so thus perhaps the old laws no longer hold.
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The launch, which was announced in advance, again defied UN sanctions just weeks after a nuclear bomb test.
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The Trump administration, meanwhile, has defied a congressional deadline to report about who was responsible for the killing.
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She has defied major shifts in technology and fashion to sustain her business for nearly three full decades.
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Speculators have ignored repeated warnings by the automotive air conditioner maker, who said the price surge defied fundamentals.
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Plenty of other teams and athletes have defied the odds and the prognosticators to roar to unlikely triumph.
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May's own party have defied her, and there's little reason to suspect that it will be the last.
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When the justices defied predictions, establishment anti-abortion organizations believed that they knew where they had gone wrong.
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It would be validation for Trump, who could then brag that he had defied the experts once again.
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" Some Pakistanis defied a government ban on Valentine's Day celebrations by buying flowers or going on "virtual dates.
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Kenney said the order came after Philadelphia residents defied previous recommendations from city officials urging voluntary social distancing.
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De Burgos, a literary foremother of the Nuyorican movement, defied societal norms and advocated for the island's independence.
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But even more significantly, it defied a ban on the CDU working with the growing far-right faction.
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Others, like Germany, have defied pressure from the U.S. and allowed the tech company into their 5G networks.
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For years, pastors have openly defied the law on "Pulpit Freedom Sunday," organized by the Alliance Defending Freedom.
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He has also defied his allies to buy Russian anti-aircraft missiles despite a threat of U.S. sanctions.
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Last month, Mr. Guaidó defied a travel ban to begin a global tour to meet with foreign leaders.
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Andrew Snyder, a lawyer for the stores, said in an email that the commission's decision defied Nebraska law.
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How they got there was a mystery, until someone stumbled upon a whirlwind so powerful, it defied textbooks.
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But Mr. Collins had defied calls to step aside, refusing to say whether he would seek another term.
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To the Editor: The editorial board has defied its mission by endorsing both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar.
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He prepared intensely ahead of his scheduled testimony and made his case that he had not defied Congress.
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Shows that defied categorization offered a stark choice: Escape an angry world, or face up to its travails.
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Former Bavaria premier Horst Seehofer -- now the federal minister of the interior in Berlin -- has openly defied Merkel.
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First, the witnesses who defied the White House blockade have already provided ample evidence to support the charges.
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Crowds defied orders to stay indoors, gathering at major squares in Istanbul and Ankara, waving flags and chanting.
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Voters in both states defied political conventional wisdom in 212, when they elevated the relatively unknown Georgia Gov.
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Deval Patrick of Massachusetts did not address Mr. Obama's comments directly, but argued that he defied ideological labels.
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The Times defied a Nixon administration warning to stop but abided by a preliminary injunction granted June 21999.
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Although he worked closely with Bush administration officials in Russia, Tillerson has also defied U.S. policy on occasion.
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A new drama series tells the true story of a woman who defied norms in 19th-century England.
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Franco, a gay woman of color, defied expectations when she was elected to Rio's city council in 2016.
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And also tonight, new developments concerning his former mistress, Lisa Page and how she today defied a congressional subpoena.
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Even if the details are embellished, their status as two women who defied society to get married still stands.
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McGahn defied his subpoena on Tuesday at the direction of the White House, not appearing for a scheduled hearing.
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And Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin defied the House Ways and Means Committee's subpoena for Trump's tax records last week.
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According to the judge who tried their case, the Lovings had defied the state's miscegenation code, a classifiable felony.
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Often defied, the prohibition against chemical weapons is one of the oldest global agreements to make war less ugly.
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It's a pure declaration of defied expectations and the heartbreaking story of love that couldn't quite surpass cultural differences.
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The economy defied the financial market turmoil at the start of the year as well as the Chinese slowdown.
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Still, the OPEC agreement defied expectations, indicating that both Iran and Saudi Arabia can prioritise economics over regional confrontation.
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The economy defied expectations for a further slowdown in the first quarter, growing at a steady 6.4 percent pace.
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Why it matters: For almost a decade, weak wage growth has defied the economic recovery and has bedeviled workers.
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He defied history's lesson that the caucuses are won through one-on-one campaigning and humble requests of support.
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In the referendum of 2016, Leavers defied warnings that Brexit would provoke immediate economic collapse—and were proved right.
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Donald Trump, the American president, defied decades of precedent in December and recognised the contested city as Israel's capital.
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Many actresses struggle to maintain a career over decades in Hollywood, but Rena Sofer has defied the Hollywood odds.
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After Arpaio defied the judge's order, he was charged and convicted of criminal contempt of court in late July.
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They talked about the dynamics of family estrangement but also of love that defied ideas about a color line.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) agreed that zero-rating defied net neutrality rules—up until a few weeks ago.
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AFTER the most thrilling and tumultuous election campaign of recent times, the French have defied populism and made history.
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Poland's prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, boasts that PiS has defied conventional wisdom, favouring the "regular guy" over the "elite".
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Their affair ignited national controversy and revulsion, particularly after Letourneau defied a court order to stay away from Fualaau.
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Then he can claim to have defied the doubters when he barely clears the standard he lowered for himself.
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Despite the apparent unlawfulness of the gathering, tens of thousands of protesters defied police to march through Yuen Long.
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Neighboring Norway defied expectations in 1994 by voting against joining the EU, repeating the result of a 1972 referendum.
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From Atlanta to BoJack Horseman, these excellent episodes defied genre conventions and pushed the boundaries of TV in 2018.
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Perhaps no two Big Ten teams have defied expectations this season - in opposite ways - more than Iowa and Indiana.
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Until now, their regulation has defied global coordination and led to a patchwork of differing approaches by national governments.
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In a sense equities have defied the odds, rallying strongly since the spring of 2009 despite sluggish economic growth.
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But we've defied history before, and the Republican Party is in prime position to do it again in 2018.
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In Australia, the benchmark ASX 21.07 defied the general downward trend in the region and rose 261.84% to 6,772.50.
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Austria and other countries have defied Ms. Merkel's wishes on how to handle the influx of refugees from Syria.
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Several current and former White House officials have defied subpoenas in the probe, citing immunity from compelled congressional testimony.
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Intended to identify fraudulent tax returns, the electronic fraud detection system has defied many attempts to modernize the program.
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And that many women in her hometown defied convention, too, by having vibrant, and by most standards, unusual careers.
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The idea that cutting fossil-fuel emissions could have an effect on the climate, he said, defied common sense.
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The decision to lift the sanctions defied a Democratic-led push in the U.S. Congress to maintain the restrictions.
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The solid retail spending of previous months had defied the anemic economic growth in the first half of 2016.
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Instead, they stretched existing laws to their legal limit, and used new laws in ways that defied congressional intent.
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It's also being defied at the state level, where the rules are being replaced by executive orders and legislation.
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So far, the brand has defied any expectations of a slowdown or of a fading buzz around Michele's creations.
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Some residents have defied the informal curfews to stage protests against India, with many of them erupting into violence.
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Mr. Lauder said the art legislation took great strides toward righting a wrong that has defied an easy solution.
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It was a parabolic move that defied reason, similar to internet stocks in the late 1990s -- a classic mania.
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But the reach it garnered, the outpouring of support and the flood of messages I received defied my expectations.
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Castro, who led Cuba's 1959 revolution and for five decades defied U.S. efforts to topple him, died on Nov.
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The era that began with the Australian Grand Prix in 2014 has defied many of the series's traditional values.
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" "It is the coexistence of these three scales of active bedforms that defied previous understanding of wind-formed ripples.
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Meanwhile, the immense assembled sculptures of Louise Nevelson, in wood painted black, projected an imperious spirit that defied condescension.
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The landing defied an air blockade led by rival groups that had restricted the city's airspace over the weekend.
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It was also likely that my drivers had suffered their fair share of peremptory mainlanders who brazenly defied regulations.
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Johnson, whose press conference was widely reported by local media, also defied calls by some legislators to step down.
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At a press briefing in Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the South Korean rulings defied international law.
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Norway, for example, is a country that for decades has defied a legally-binding global moratorium on commercial whaling.
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We really sort of defied the odds across the board raising this round so quickly… Seattle really showed up.
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The head of Poland's Supreme Court, Małgorzata Gersdorf, openly defied the law and came to the court building anyway.
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The Economy Ministry said in its monthly report that the strong domestic economy had defied the turbulent global environment.
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So far the British economy has defied the worst predictions made in the run-up to the 2016 referendum.
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"Martin Luther King defied the fire hoses and the Southern good ol' boys during that time," Mr. Potter said.
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The overwhelming majority of member nations thus defied Mr. Trump's threats to withhold aid from countries backing the resolution.
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Andre Iguodala defied age and gravity with a dunk, but Siakam answered immediately with a wide open 3-pointer.
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Dozens of other administration officials and associates defied subpoenas at the direction of the White House prior to impeachment.
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They defied the law, went on hunger strikes, broke windows and set off bombs in pursuit of their goal.
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Trump also defied the warnings of public health officials in a series of tweets sprinkled throughout the market rout.
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But each time the skeptics have come forward, investors have defied them and bought more Bitcoins at higher prices.
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The nation has defied Western norms, and expectations, to become the world's second-largest economy and the newest superpower.
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The singer has defied critics and graduated summa cum laude from the pop pantheon into the hall of legends.
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Wukan, meanwhile, has long since reverted to the grip of the local officials whom the villagers had once defied.
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While Collins and Murkowski have occasionally defied Trump on policy, Flake broke with him largely on style and decency.
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For years, China has defied the axiom that a free political system and economic growth go hand in hand.
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She demanded loyalty from a conquered force and Randyll and Dickon defied her, in front of dozens of men.
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The skirmishes have since subsided, but demonstrators set up at least three camps and defied government orders to disband.
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The trip began much as it started — with a last-minute decision by the White House that defied tradition.
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The party denounced Mr. Zhao as a turncoat who had revealed splits in the leadership and defied Deng's will.
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Despite the country's longstanding economic isolation, it has repeatedly defied Western-led efforts to change its behavior through sanctions.
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But tens of thousands of protesters defied a ban on marches and attended rallies throughout the city, per Bloomberg.
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Many municipalities have fought Uber as the company has defied regulations and slipped through legal loopholes to infiltrate markets.
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Kabila has defied a constitutional requirement to step down from office despite having already served the maximum two terms.
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As with other agencies, the Pentagon has defied subpoenas issued by the three House committees overseeing the impeachment probe.
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WE WILL NOT BE SILENTThe White Rose Student Resistance Movement that Defied Adolf Hitler By Russell Freedman112 pp. Clarion.
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More recently Cohen sought to enforce a nondisclosure agreement, but Daniels defied him and his client by speaking out.
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Cummings, who was told in high school that he would not succeed academically, defied expectations from an early age.
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Last week, a regional branch defied her by backing a local leader helped into office by the far right.
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Throughout, he defied predictions of his demise, whether by coup or assassination, and imminent economic collapse or popular revolt.
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Kenya defied doomsayers in the last presidential election in 22007, when the result was contested but voting was calm.
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Patrick Chappatte Fidel Castro, a Cuban revolutionary who defied the United States for nearly 50 years, died on Friday.
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" Abrams said that the shutdown "defied every tenet of fairness and abandoned not just our people -- but our values.
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Not unlike Kardashian, the blonde, bubbly protagonist played by Reese Witherspoon defied all odds and became a law student.
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Over in Britain, the U.K. saw its first July surplus in 15 years and defied expectations of another deficit.
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Those factors and the fact that China has defied expectations for a slow down have helped push copper higher.
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President Donald Trump has promoted a central figure in the House impeachment inquiry who defied a subpoena to testify.
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Which means it's officially game time for Best Buy, the store that has defied the ecommerce trend for years.
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The risk-taking King who defied presidents to protest war is often missing in our popular memory of him.
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In doing so, she defied the Trump administration's orders for federal employees to not take part in the inquiry.
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Andrew Kelvin, chief Canada strategist at TD Securities, said the May report had defied expectations after April's monster gain.
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Yes, we've had two Democratic presidents in that time, both of whom defied supply-side principles at key junctures.
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Yet, on this occasion, Erdoğan defied the court decision claiming that the Turkish media should not have unlimited freedom.
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Shock waves rippled around the world in June 2016 after Britons defied pollsters and voted to leave the bloc.
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America's energy sources, like booming oil and crumbling coal, have defied projections and historical precedents over the last decade.
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The decision defied the advice of the Army Corps of Engineers and flooded dozens of farmhouses above the village.
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Facing certain defeat again, Democratic Party leader Seiji Maehara threw in his lot with Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, a former LDP lawmaker who had defied the LDP to win the governorship in 2016, then defied it again when she defeated its Tokyo chapter to win control of Tokyo's legislative assembly in July.
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Mexico Beach's city administrator said on Wednesday that 285 of the town's 1,000 or so residents had defied evacuation orders.
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The question of why this election has so far defied many of our theories and predictions is a worthy one.
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She defied her teacher's expectations, excelling in her classes, eventually finding a job providing educational services to Bucks County Schools.
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"It was during the revolution that Jackson first confronted and defied an arrogant elite," Trump told the crowd in Nashville.
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There have been two subsequent letters and two subpoenas issued for her appearance and she has defied all of that.
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Lawmakers defied expectations of a vote on the bill on Tuesday, but Megale said he expected a vote on Wednesday.
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Fans should be elated the Panthers have defied the franchise norm, moving away from perennial bottom feeders to playoff contender.
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Princess Kate wore regal red – and defied the effects of the soggy day – for a landmark royal ceremony on Monday.
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This week, Page defied a congressionally issued subpoena to appear Wednesday for a closed-door deposition before the same committees.
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Nearly a month later, a reporter defied the administration by live streaming the audio recording of an off-camera briefing.
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The call was made after Johnson defied Trump by allowing the Chinese telecoms company Huawei to develop Britain's 5G network.
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As I waded in, I learned many things that defied pretty much everything I had taken for granted about breastfeeding.
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In both cases, Egypt defied international consensus and sought to push a narrative that absolved its institutions of any blame.
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The new currency, brought into being on January 1st 1999, has defied early critics, who thought it doomed to failure.
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Now, three years later, the little girl has defied the odds thanks to a newly-approved half-inch heart valve.
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In one particularly tense episode, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly defied Obama in March 2015 by addressing the US Congress.
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Heck, even if it had defied odds and somehow been a great device it still would have been a disaster.
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Billionaire businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump defied most polls and expert forecasts to win the U.S. presidential election.
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Since the decree went into effect, two boats have defied it and entered the port of Lampedusa to disembark migrants.
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Trump's veto "defied fundamental principles of constitutional law," he and 12 other law professors wrote in a letter to Pelosi.
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On Sunday, protesters defied police orders and left an authorized demonstration in Chater Gardens to march through the city center.
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The scene—with its bikinis, pork, and an open bar—defied everything I thought I knew about my new home.
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The leaders have only met in public twice, but Trump has defied his team in his interactions with Putin before.
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Patel's and Victory Lounge defied that, selling to everyone, even if some customers couldn't sit down to enjoy their meals.
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Britain's economy has defied pre-referendum predictions of a swift plunge into recession, buoyed in part by stronger global growth.
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Canada's Governor General said he touched Queen Elizabeth's elbow to help her down some stairs, but it defied royal protocol.
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Electoral betting would not make a comeback until 1988, when Jesse Jackson defied expectations to win Michigan's Democratic presidential primary.
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Security Council members are agitated by North Korea's recent nuclear and missile tests -- both of which defied current international sanctions.
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Lastly, it also implies that male dominated spheres such as language are being defied by sheer existence of the phrase.
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Chris Rock defied producers Saturday night at the 50th NAACP Image Awards -- because he had to -- and ripped Jussie Smollett.
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So if Mr Obama defied the express will of Congress when he issued his orders, he may have acted unconstitutionally.
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But she decided to stick around after Trump defied expectations of most members of Congress and won the Electoral College.
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Even with her heart beating outside of her shell, the baby turtle, named Hope, has defied the odds and survived.
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When Saudi women first defied the driving ban "Let me tell you about our leadership's view on women," he said.
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Abraham Lincoln simply defied Taney, while his fellow Republicans in Congress raised the number of Supreme Court justices to ten.
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She defied those expectations with the help of machines called bionic exoskeleton suits, which inspired Boxtel to create Bridging Bionics.
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He has defied sceptics and overcome setbacks over the years, all the while pushing on with innovations of improbable ambition.
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In appearance stolid and unimaginative, Mr Rajoy is unflappable and a shrewd strategist who has repeatedly defied rivals and expectations.
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He was a power guy, but he had a penchant for high flying moves which defied his wrecking ball physique.
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Instead, it seems she will be facing a nominee who has both defied expectations and created enormous challenges for himself.
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What happened next defied reasonable expectations, even for a basketball maestro like Curry, who has assembled a myth-making season.
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It was fascinating to watch as the Miners, who started five African-Americans, defied all expectations to beat the Wildcats.
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North Korea has repeatedly defied international sanctions and warnings not to continue ballistic missile launches and tests of nuclear weapons.
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And yet the BNP, after cobbling together a new coalition, still defied the crackdowns to campaign and contest the election.
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We might remind ourselves that no man is a team, but Ronaldo has defied that concept time and time again.
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The Trump administration has defied several subpoenas of its own in recent weeks, including a demand for Trump's tax returns.
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Trump on Wednesday cited the Senate results as evidence he had defied the midterm odds, although the results were mixed.
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Republicans defied their powerful Washington leadership to choose Donald J. Trump, a billionaire developer who has never held political office.
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When croquet's best players gathered for the world championships, 15-year-old Edmund Fordyce defied odds to set new expectations.
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While modern presidential nominees have publicly released their returns, Trump has defied the norm, which Democrats argue must be remedied.
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Trump had defied repeated calls to release his returns during the campaign and clearly is convinced that voters don't care.
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The People's Republic of China has successfully defied the international order and is relentlessly remaking it in its own mold.
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He boasted about his election win, which defied the pundits who said he had no path to 270 electoral votes.
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A better-than-expected jobs report defied market experts who have expressed anxiety about the state of the global economy.
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He defied U.S. intelligence info, and said he didn't see any reason why Russia would have meddled in our elections.
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Trump has defied decades of precedent by refusing to release his returns, saying his tax affairs are under federal audit.
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With a mix of guitar and keyboards - working together harmoniously – the music defied comparison to other acts of the day.
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Horowitz's draft report called FBI Director James Comey "insubordinate" and concluded that he "defied authority at times," ABC News reported.
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Now that Trump has defied him, Moon may need to scramble to ensure his liberal political party doesn't lose votes.
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Democrats in swing districts generally ran on centrist agendas that defied stereotypes and policy positions typically associated with Democratic candidates.
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He lashed out at those who defied his wishes by voting for the Democrats' budget package, including 15 House Republicans.
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In the ultimate rejection of political expertise, Trump defied virtually every professional pollster and prognosticator who predicted a Clinton victory.
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And last night, the Republican Party defied history to expand our Senate majority while significantly beating expectations in the House.
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Diplomats from nearly 200 countries defied expectations and reached a deal this weekend to keep the Paris climate accord alive.
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That was a huge factor last time because Trump completely defied all those orders that we usually give to candidates.
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In instance after instance, his staff defied his orders and acted as a bulwark against Mr. Trump's most destructive impulses.
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He knows as well as anyone that prosecutorial misconduct is a serious and stubborn problem that has largely defied solution.
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He defied the odds simply by making the majors, something nobody else from Joel Barlow High School in Redding, Conn.
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For more than two decades of staggering from crisis to crisis, Bosnia's fragile system has defied predictions of imminent collapse.
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First they defied the court's ruling and then they tried to impeach the justices who voted in favor of it.
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Rick Scott of Florida, above, defied the N.R.A. and proposed raising the age limit for any gun purchases to 21.
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These amazing hair creations defied gravity, predated dioramas and are the matriarchial lineage of today's hair extensions, weaves, and wigs.
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Since then, a number of filmmakers have defied the government and spoken out about the unrest and the downed plane.
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The petition effort got underway in May, when more than a dozen House Republicans defied Mr. Ryan by signing on.
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Anthony defied the laws of her time by voting in the 1872 elections in her home of Rochester, New York.
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Ha Tae-hoon of Korea University School of Law, who called the agency a "beast" that had defied democratic progress.
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Aurelius sued just days after the governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rosselló, defied the oversight board for his own reasons.
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Conservative groups have defied the ban on protests re: containing the spread of coronavirus in South Korea, which has surged.
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The picture of Cohen as a hands-off investor who didn't care what his other traders were doing defied belief.
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The UK government defied the US to give the Chinese company a role in improving the UK&aposs digital infrastructure.
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He began his letter with a tone befitting a hostile takeover attempt, stating that their refusal to negotiate defied logic.
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But the Trump administration has defied these protections, instead putting in place draconian policies meant to target vulnerable migrant workers.
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He has defied the media pundits and all traditional thinking, and gone about the political process how he saw fit.
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But Mr. Arpaio was an elected official who defied a federal court's order that he stop violating people's constitutional rights.
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However, it's unclear how that might influence the hermetic regime, which has steadfastly defied international pressure and United Nations sanctions.
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The U.K. defied Washington's calls and made a decision to partially allow Huawei to participate in the country's 5G rollout.
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Anbang also pushed — and even defied — the government's often loosely defined limits on what Chinese insurers are allowed to do.
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Britain on Tuesday defied the United States by granting Chinese technology firm Huawei a limited role in Britain's 5G network.
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For instance, last year the company defied California state regulators to run a self-driving car experiment in San Francisco.
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Like Barton, Conyers also said he won't run for reelection in 2018 but has defied calls for him to resign.
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But add that to the 20-some-odd members of Parliament who defied him on Tuesday, and Johnson's in trouble.
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The total again defied Wall Street expectations, as economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters were expecting payrolls to grow by 195,000.
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In the case of Becket, he defied the King after he was appointed archbishop of Canterbury in the 12th century.
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Charles Kupperman, a former senior national security official, defied a subpoena ordering him to appear before House investigators on Monday.
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We defied the elites, rejected political correctness, and made a statement millions of Americans have wanted to shout for decades.
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But Tuesday's announcement defied expectations among some skeptics who thought Trump, a Republican, and Lopez Obrador, a leftist, would clash.
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Recent cycles have defied expectations in many respects, but the winners typically polled well early in the cycle as well.
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Separate smaller groups defied a massive security presence in an attempt to march on Taksim Square, but were quickly dispersed.
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As voters took to the polls to cast their votes Tuesday, some found themselves staring at ballots that defied understanding.
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Meanwhile, Kim Jong Un has defied predictions of a short reign at the time the callow heir succeeded to the throne.
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He defied the massed sniffing prudes of the Comics Code Authority by writing about racism and drug abuse, until they capitulated!
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Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, defied the pundits by winning an outright re-election victory in the first round of voting.
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He had defied the church by marrying (a woman) and campaigning for an end to the rule of celibacy for clerics.
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In 2016, the outsider Trump and his team defied convention and relied on tribalism and confusion to carry them to victory.
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Indeed, the post-election rally has defied expectations across Wall Street, with bullish sentiment at its highest level in 30 years.
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Paris Hilton defied the reality of Thanksgiving by showing up a little lighter ... but only lighter by a bunch of carats.
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Now to say that Comey was insubordinate and defied authority and that Loretta Lynch didn&apost handle the tarmac meeting well.
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This weekend, Kim Kardashian West defied gravity in a Thierry Mugler gown with daring cutouts and very strategically-placed crisscrossed straps.
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Kardashian and West defied rumors of marital trouble when they stepped out together for dinner in Santa Monica, as People reports.
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"These witnesses have defied the White House efforts to prevent their testimony by following the lawful requirements of subpoenas," Schiff said.
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But in recent years, Republican politicians especially have not only defied the rules, they have also protected themselves from the consequences.
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A more convincing approach would see Huawei admit that China is different and concede that some party commands cannot be defied.
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Trump administration lawyers have defied other subpoenas from Democrats on the grounds that they, too, made demands outside of Congress' bounds.
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The population movement hadn't just insulted our love of big, nuclear families; it had directly defied our theology — and our God.
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Both Noah and Bodhi defied gender stereotypes just a few months ago when they wore long flowing gowns to the park.
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Ever since Trump announced his "we're fighting all the subpoenas" strategy, his administration has held the line and defied congressional subpoenas.
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After leaving office, he also defied the National Rifle Association to help pass the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994, since expired.
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I wanted to get real-life advice from women who had defied the odds and made their circumstances work for them.
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The ex-Catalan leader defied a court order to appear in Madrid and instead sought refuge in Belgium earlier this week.
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The album defied critical consensus and went on to sell millions of copies and is often credited with birthing heavy metal.
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Japan's heavy use of policy has not delivered the desired results, and the stronger yen has defied the central bank's efforts.
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"Dear @GOP: The reason people liked my snap was because it defied regressive, homophobic, scary-ass losers like you," he tweeted.
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The European Commission said Qualcomm defied EU regulations by paying billions to Apple to not use chips made by its rivals.
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There could be a governing moment if Trump defied the polls and won the White House, along with a Republican Congress.
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On the following days some of Mr Nasralla's supporters defied the curfew; others banged pots in their homes and gated communities.
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Hours after the operation and with 16 hours to go before my flight, my grandmother defied the auguries and woke up.
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In 1971, Lee even defied the Comics Code itself, giving one of Spidey's supporting cast a tragic drug-use B-plot.
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Britain's strong labor market has defied a slowdown in the economy since the 2016 referendum vote to leave the European Union.
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She has boldly defied trends with her outrageous outfits and costumes — the exception being her affinity for classic Adidas track suits.
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According to a report the Justice Department inspector general is concluding former FBI Director James Comey defied his authority at times.
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Some of those big mines that defied for so long predictions of their imminent demise have now finally shut up shop.
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You were supported in that victory over communism by a strong alliance of free nations in the West that defied tyranny.
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The row has defied mediation efforts by Kuwait and the United States, which sees Gulf unity as essential to containing Iran.
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Britney Spears chose an outfit for Sunday's Billboard Music Awards that defied all categorization for her walk down the red carpet.
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Donald Trump defied fierce attacks from mainstream Republicans led by Mitt Romney to win comfortably in disparate regions of the country.
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It worked on the campaign trail, where he defied endless pundit predictions about his imminent demise and fended off countless distractions.
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And yet, to her credit, Commissioner Jessica Rosenwercel defied convention, and refused to go along, signaling concern over the FCC's authority.
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His selection last September as Labour's candidate for the mayoralty and his subsequent success in the opinion polls have defied expectations.
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North Korea's Kim Jong-Un defied U.S. pressure to end his nuclear weapons program by launching one test missile after another.
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Of course, ending a campaign is always painful, especially one that so consistently defied expectations and openly challenged the political order.
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By almost all accounts, Trump's rise has defied the odds and is leaving the political prognosticators and prediction markets increasingly irrelevant.
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Their prison sentences were suspended on the condition that they leave the state for 25 years, a ruling they eventually defied.
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It defied all logic of what I knew about men, of what a man would be like in an absolute monarchy.
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In the case of the automakers, U.S. car and light truck sales have so far defied predictions of a significant slump.
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I also guessed "Ashe" for GRAF and had "somber" for SOBBER, even though that error defied the grammar of the puzzle.
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Erdoğan too has defied foreign pressure before, most recently flouting the threat of US sanctions to purchase Russia's S-400 platform.
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He also defied the wishes of senior officials in the Department of Justice, according to various news reports early Saturday afternoon.
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Cisneros defied the advice of Donald Justice, her adviser, and continued work on what would become The House on Mango Street.
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Trump's order of an immediate withdrawal from Syria -- the final straw for Mattis -- defied the counsel of his national security experts.
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Soon the city emptied of traffic except for a few straggling taxis and a trickle of drivers who defied the order.
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As white voters in other corners of the country turned increasingly conservative, Midwestern blue-collar workers "defied demographic gravity," Podhorzer said.
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The resolution will also target former White House counsel Don McGahn, who has defied a Democratic subpoena to appear before Congress.
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She defied the Hollywood trope of the stripper waiting for a knight in shining armor to take her off the pole.
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Fashion chain Next, which trades from more than 700 stores worldwide, defied UK retail gloom and raised its outlook last month.
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The billionaire businessman has defied predictions of his impending political doom for nearly a year while withstanding a slew of controversies.
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He has repeatedly defied Brown's orders throughout the run-up to the case, which is scheduled for September, The Oregonian said.
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As his favorite human told me, Dexter "defied stereotypes, and defined love," and for that, we will always treasure his memory.
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He later embodied the Third World revolutionary who defied the West, acting as a prominent voice for the developing nations movement.
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As a judge, he twice defied federal court orders and has vowed to end McConnell's reign as majority leader if elected.
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Trump has been the most vocal critic of Apple on the campaign trail since the tech company defied the court order.
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Some Ecuadorians have defied internal circulation restrictions, while there have been crowds in markets and shopping centers, according to Reuters witnesses.
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Some Ecuadorians have defied internal circulation restrictions, while there have been crowds in markets and shopping centers, according to Reuters witnesses.
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JERUSALEM — About a dozen Palestinian businessmen defied the official Palestinian boycott of the Trump administration's economic conference in Bahrain last week.
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This is a really important point of distinction between two candidates who otherwise have defied the preferences of the party establishment.
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Still, Ms. Carmena has defied predictions that she would destroy the economy by placing onerous restrictions on private businesses and investment.
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Diplomats from nearly 19843 countries defied expectations and reached a deal this weekend that would keep the Paris climate accord alive.
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In June, Mr. Seehofer defied Ms. Merkel with his plans to turn refugees back at the border of Bavaria and Austria.
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Mr. Rajapaksa had seemed well entrenched as president until Mr. Sirisena defied the odds and beat him in the 2015 election.
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Some came in reaction to a moment in time that defied understanding — the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and the Rev.
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For a man who had defied death multiple times over the years, it seemed that the moment might finally be arriving.
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And ever since its 2008 debut album, the group has noisily defied the cultural decline of rock in the 21st century.
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"It was during the Revolution that Jackson first confronted and defied an arrogant elite," Mr. Trump told a crowd gathered there.
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But union leaders and labor experts said that ending the exploitation of migrants was a complex task that defied simply solutions.
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One newcomer, the anti-immigrant People's Party, defied the polls to get its first foothold in the Althing with four seats.
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Indeed, the Arctic described here is an ecological Rube Goldberg assemblage that for many years defied most attempts to understand it.
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Fishing boats had been ordered before the storm into anchorages, and the authorities detained several fishermen who had defied the warnings.
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Former White House counsel Don McGahn on Tuesday defied a subpoena from the House Judiciary Committee, at the White House's request.
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Morrison and his Liberal-National coalition defied polls to narrowly win the May election, a result Morrison described as a "miracle".
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One of my favorite shows this year was "Twin Peaks," and what I loved about it was it defied narrative logic.
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Father Cardenal defied the Roman Catholic Church in the 21979s by serving as a minister in the revolutionary government of Nicaragua.
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FRANKFURT — European auto manufacturers have so far defied expectations that supply chain chaos would bring their assembly lines to a standstill.
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If we are lucky, this is just a hiccup in negotiating a standoff that has defied resolution for nearly 70 years.
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In an indication of trouble ahead, pro-European Labour members of Parliament who defied Mr. Corbyn's instructions to vote with Mrs.
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Some longtime Montauk residents were ready to write him off as a washed-up party boy, but he has defied expectations.
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And he is the candidate whose performance has defied every expectation — and just wants the media to show him some respect.
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" Kim, in turn, has defied the global community's calls to halt his tests, and has referred to Trump as a "dotard.
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Afghanistan's Romeo and Juliet: The True Story of How They Defied Their Families and Escaped an Honor Killing, by Rod Nordland.
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And Puccini's long second act, which let the tragedy play out in a single crescendo, defied musical conventions of the time.
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Only last month, Trump defied the advice of his staff and congratulated Putin for his victory in a blatantly rigged election.
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Redler said the market has defied a few historical negatives, like typical weakness in August and the "sell in May" adage.
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Trump has long sought to penalize areas of the country that have defied his efforts to crack down on undocumented immigration.
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For one hour on live national television, Trump defied the National Rifle Association, called for expanding background checks, entertained Democratic Sen.
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Multiple current and former officials defied his defiance of the House's impeachment inquiry to give damaging testimony about his Ukraine scheme.
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UK prime minister Boris Johnson has defied President Trump to permit Huawei to provide equipment for the country&aposs 5G networks.
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The administration has defied a congressional demand to release the Commerce Department report that underpins the tariffs, angering lawmakers, including Republicans.
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The International Biathlon Union defied the advice in the fall, voting to award that sport's 2021 world championships to Tyumen, Russia.
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But Uber defied those rules in December, attempting to launch a self-driving pilot program in San Francisco without a permit.
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To keep to that timetable, Democrats are forgoing testimony from some officials who have defied requests to appear before House committees.
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A dozen witnesses have defied lawmakers' subpoenas in what Schiff alleged was "an unprecedented campaign of obstruction" from the White House.
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That defied expectations of analysts who estimated a draw in the stockpiles of 2.4 million barrels, according to a Reuters survey.
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But Trump has long defied predictions of his own demise and survived the kind of blows that would paralyze other presidents.
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Ships that defied the order risked being impounded and were threatened with fines of up to a million euros ($1.1 million).
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Ariel Sharon, who was hoping to be Prime Minister, defied the pleas of the Palestinian leadership and visited the Temple Mount.
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May, the leader of the Conservative Party who has defied many predictions of her political demise, lived to fight another day.
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The two kinds of exceptions came together during the civil rights era, when Jim Crow laws were defied in public ways.
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They said their case was about a specific president who had defied norms and was known to have complicated financial entanglements.
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Rich, powerful septuagenarians who've defied the conventional wisdom and succeeded don't change, and it's time to stop waiting for Donald Trump.
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Mr. Northam first apologized, then said he wasn't in the photo, and he defied calls from his fellow Democrats to resign.
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North Korea, the world's most isolated nation, has repeatedly defied Security Council resolutions to halt its nuclear weapons and missile testing.
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It's also why Iran got the better of us in the nuclear negotiations and North Korea has defied us for years.
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In three seconds that defied reasonable expectation, Robinson got to his feet, raced toward the corner and leapt into the air.
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The series likely couldn't have defied gravity forever, which makes it all the smarter that it ended after just 18 episodes.
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As head of the Republican National Committee, Priebus defied many in his party and refused to tilt the primaries against Trump.
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And in a scathing dissent to Thursday's split 2-1 ruling, Judge Jerry Smith wrote that the majority's decision defied logic.
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To make matters worse, Maduro has defied his own people, stealing power from their elected representatives, to preserve his disastrous rule.
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The first time, he defied an order to remove a large statue of the Ten Commandments from the state Supreme Court building.
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He defied years of US efforts at regime change and his very defiance transformed him into something of an enduring national obsession.
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Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank analysts defied upbeat market sentiment for Netflix and projected a decline in share price to $110 by year end.
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On other matters, from refugee quotas to emissions targets and from takeover rulings to energy policy, the commission has defied Berlin's preferences.
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The North has defied the ban, saying it infringes on its sovereign rights to self-defense and the pursuit of space exploration.
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In 2016, Apple defied a court order to unlock an iPhone used by a shooter in an attack in San Bernardino, California.
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Coleman, the College Board's CEO, told CNN Saturday that the dashboard spotlights students who have defied odds by excelling in demanding circumstances.
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If you compare Snapchat's recent growth numbers with Facebook and Instagram's unimaginative clones (which have defied expectations since 2016), things look worse.
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The team, who came into the tournament as the lowest-ranked team, have defied their fans' expectations by reaching the quarter-finals.
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Neither of the news agencies mentioned the months-old row between Riyadh and Doha, which has defied Kuwaiti and U.S. mediation efforts.
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Pressed on the polls, she noted that she had defied expectations before when many prognosticators thought her campaign was dead last spring.
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What follows is a list of entrepreneurs who not only figured it out but did it with ideas that openly defied logic.
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Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy broke her parents' hearts when she defied their wishes and married Billy Hartington, a future duke – and a Protestant.
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Two big bipartisan spending bills, combined with the administration's landmark tax cuts, however, have defied the typical trends and instead aggravated deficits.
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At times, she has defied the odds and risen to the number one late night show among the coveted 18-34 demographic.
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The judges defied those rules this year, saying they could not agree on a winner between the books by Evaristo and Atwood.
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The judges defied those rules this year, saying they could not agree on a winner between the books by Evaristo and Atwood.
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On Wednesday oil again defied expectations and moved higher, serving as a positive force for stocks and a negative one for bonds.
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Individual diplomats like Taylor have defied that order when it comes to verbal testimony, and marched down to Capitol Hill to speak.
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Seven of the nine leaders were active politically in autumn 2017, when they and others defied courts by organizing an independence referendum.
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Geeta led a group of women in her village in northern India who defied an order to quit working in nearby factories.
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Many of the protesters defied police calls to retreat and passed provisions, including medical supplies, goggles, water and food among each other.
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The U.S. currency came under further pressure after the Bank of Japan defied market expectations for more monetary stimulus, boosting the yen.
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Hong Kong's top official, Chief Executive Carrie Lam, has defied protest calls to drop the legislation and step down from her post.
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Some 118 Tory MPs seem to have defied their party whip to oppose the deal, one of the biggest-ever such rebellions.
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The Republican-controlled U.S. Congress defied opposition from Democrats to pass the bill and give President Trump his first major legislative victory.
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Mr Trump's approval rating has already defied the historical pattern of declining sharply in the first half of a mid-term year.
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She defied her doctors and went on a date with Dalton, and two years later, they married when they were both 20.
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Attorney General William Barr, who defied a subpoena to hand over an unredacted version of the Mueller report and its underlying evidence.
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The Republican nominee has repeatedly defied his own commitments and fudged assurances -- and done it well before a single vote was cast.
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Legally and practically, if Trump or his administration defied a final order from a federal court, there is only one solution: impeachment.
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His claims prompted even the National Rifle Association, a group that endorsed Trump, to respond saying that the candidate defied common sense.
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But, later in the afternoon, thousands defied police orders and marched beyond the designated end point towards the Chinese government's liaison office.
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They were icons of sexuality — archetypes of late 20th-century sexuality who then defied and redefined those archetypes for the 21st century.
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Cecil Taylor, the jazz pianist who defied the genre's orthodoxy and became one of its most original improvisers, has died at 89.
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In an election season that has defied all odds, the gun-rights debate has not followed a predictable path in the primaries.
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After being diagnosed with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, the actress defied the odds and lived beyond what doctors expected, but continued to undergo chemotherapy.
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They have unknowingly challenged and defied all Islamophobic stereotypes and have left a foundation of charity and philanthropy to live in eternity.
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These two men have defied their party establishments, done everything they weren't supposed to do, and still won victories with substantive leads.
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It's a last-minute win for outgoing Mayor Tomás Regalado, a Republican who defied many in his party in championing the effort.
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The granddaughter of a slave, Ella Baker defied racial and gender norms to spearhead direct action in the advancement of civil rights.
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The deal to lift the sanctions on the companies defied a Democratic-led push in the U.S. Congress to maintain the restrictions.
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" Conservative HP boss Meg Whitman defied her political party to call Trump a demagogue that "undermined the fabric of our national character.
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