Both men defied travel restrictions and secretly went to view conditions in Ukraine.

The higher a man defies, the greater number of people are affected by the defiance.

What man but one defies the law from insolence, and the gods for sport?

From the hillside Prasamaccus could only watch in sad admiration as the two men defied the impossible.

Then, around noon, the man who had so stubbornly defied the Germans was wounded.

Dunholm was a place where a man could grow old and defy his enemies in safety.

Only three men, within living memory, have ever defied the warning; and all have learned the way of bitter wisdom.

Initial bravado - man defies nature - gives way to a broken man's weary fatalism.

Here was a spot where a single man might defy an army, and Bulan had been quick to see the natural advantages of it.

As the rest of us press our noses to the glass, a young man defies the rules and snaps two quick pictures.