"defy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But Sri Lankans continue to be urged by candidates to defy threats and vote, as much to save the democratic system as to choose a candidate.
- Exactly two years ago they defied threats and violence to vote overwhelmingly for independence from a quarter century of Indonesian occupation.
- But on Friday night, members of Congress, which had been in recess, returned to their building, defying threats by Government security forces that they would be expelled.
- He also hangs onto the rest, defying threats by Pino and his cohorts to hand over their shares.
- In two elections, millions voted, defying terrorist threats.
- A respected hero figure boldly defying threats of death and torture was safer than a nonentity.
- Hundreds of protesters had stood all week in the wintry cold, singing songs and defying threats of violence and arrest.
- On Aug. 30, 1999, nearly 98 percent of East Timor's voters defied threats and cast their ballots in a referendum on independence.
- She defied the defamation and threats by Islamic extremists who wanted to ban women entirely from public appearance.
- On September 25, 2007, 2,000 monks and supporters defied threats from Burma's junta.
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