"defy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He had lost no time in ridding himself of a wife who had defied his wishes.
- And I won't have a wife who stands there and defies my wishes!
- They only saw us as spoiled children defying their wishes.
- So it may be, and so they defy my wishes!
- Because of the union's wealth and influence, chancellors rarely defy its wishes.
- She could not defy her mother's wishes, so she put on the ring and fell to the floor.
- The only way he could attain the status required to defy his father's wishes, he told me, was to become a father himself.
- As a young man he defied his father's wishes to become an engineer and became a choreographer instead.
- He was powerful enough to wreck any paper which defied his wishes.
- It is therefore extremely difficult for incumbents, mainly Democrats, to defy its wishes on the budget.
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