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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law. -- Ted Cruz
I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death. -- Jesse Ventura
In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington. -- Stephen Kinzer
I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it. -- Mike Wallace
I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration. -- Margaret Anderson
I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough. -- Lucy Larcom
My beloved dog defied treatment from the best and most expensive veterinarians, holistic practitioners, trainers, and animal communicators. He was simply beyond my ability to repair or control. -- Jon Katz
First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights. -- George W. Norris
He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles. -- Kit Williams
Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual. -- Steven Pinker
Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful. -- Bill Frist
Bush the Elder's stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I've ever covered and a man who defied his party on tax increases while imposing budget restrictions on the Democrats. -- Joe Klein
Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admired, George C. Marshall, and won a place in Israel's history by recognizing the new state 11 minutes after it declared its independence in 1948. -- Elliott Abrams
There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired. -- Eric Liu
In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This phenomenon has never been related to how rich, poor, successful or not successful the woman may be. -- Zainab Salbi
One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness. -- Criss Angel
I think that hip-hop has done what it was supposed to have done, which is it defied all the laws of what is statistically a music genre and what statistically is not a music genre. Because it wasn't supposed to be here. -- Monie Love
When I was about 10, I saw Timothy Bottoms in a tele-movie called 'A Shining Season,' and it really moved me. I was maybe 8 or 9. Timothy played a runner who had cancer, and he defied the odds by coaching a girls' team to victory. -- Reggie Lee
And basically, the sense of the 'Pledge to America' is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in '06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way. -- Eric Cantor
Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that. -- Tinie Tempah
Power, safely defied, touches its downfall. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Australians have defied global economic gravity. -- Wayne Swan
Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied. -- L. Neil Smith
Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law. -- Arthur Scargill
Donald Trump has defied practically every playbook or blue book technique in dispatching an opponent. -- Rush Limbaugh
Donald Trump has defied practically every playbook or blue book technique in dispatching an opponent. -- Rush Limbaugh
An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities. -- Honore de Balzac
(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic. -- Bob Costas
Jesus defied all of these rules. He taught in the outer courts of the Temple so women could join the audience. -- Danny Silk
The Major only glanced at the newspaper these days, tired of trying to comprehend a situation which defied comprehension, a war without battles or trenches. -- J.G. Farrell
Reflections of the battlements shimmered in the deep green moat, casting an image of enduring strength, an image that defied the very siege of time. -- Karen Azinger
I think that standing onstage on January 19th, and my father had just defied all expectations and won Iowa, was by far the most surreal moment. -- Vanessa Kerry
How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension. -- Robert J. Sawyer
[Young people] are much less likely to express attitudes that defied us between us and them. They see themselves as part of a global economy that they can navigate successfully. -- Barack Obama
My father's mother, my Grandmother Young, was said by the family to have talked herself to death. Convalescing from a fever, she had defied the doctors and gone right on talking. -- Stark Young
First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights. -- George W. Norris
We will immediately terminate President [Barack] Obama's two illegal executive amnesties in which he defied federal law and the Constitution to give amnesty to approximately five million illegal immigrants, five million. -- Donald Trump
What an honor it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down barriers, and championed human rights before the eyes of the world. -- Idris Elba
President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the use of interrogation techniques that any reasonable observer would call torture. -- Jennifer Daskal
The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight. -- Barbara Tuchman

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