"defy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A second factor that also defies control is demographics.
- But the school custodians are a special case; they run a system that has long defied rational control.
- In some cases, the two become connected in ways that defy control, as Brazil has discovered.
- The leg was like a separate creature, jumping fitfully, defying containment or control.
- But there is still no consensus on how to restructure the system, a fiendishly tangled thicket of traditions, expectations and special interests that has long defied rational control.
- Instead, he was put in a group home while his father was seeking to have him classified as a "person in need of supervision," a truant who defied parental control.
- However, the process defied control by even the most advanced computers.
- A6 American and Iraqi forces clashed for a third consecutive day as Iraq's vice president vowed to continue to defy American and British control of its skies.
- These efforts were aborted in the course of the 983 Great Slav Rising in the Northern March, which again defied German control over the region.
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