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Перевод: defy
[глагол] бросать вызов; открыто не повиноваться; оказывать открытое неповиновение; игнорировать; пренебрегать; не поддаваться; представлять непреодолимые трудности
Тезаурус:
- But there was an element of luck in yesterday's performances because the British crews decided to defy political reality by going hard left on the first beat and were pleasantly rewarded by a massive windshift in their favour.
- If the President could not afford to defy McCarthy, it was not surprising that Washington career men toed his line.
- Certainly to some he made the point that a government defeat would raise potential constitutional problems - the Lords could not lightly defy the will of a democratically elected House of Commons.
- Edberg sees the ball so early, hits it so sweetly and executes his shots so effectively, that one suspects that he could easily defy any West Indian or Australian pace attack.
- You try to defy death all the time when you've had a Catholic upbringing, because it's just so awful.
- Jack Berry's Laurel Queen is fancied for the Standard Life Handicap (3.15) and Bill Elsey's Philgun may defy a penalty in the Calder Handicap (4.15).
- As for Kinnockic (or, to give it its scholarly name, Kinnockabout), its complexities defy analysis.
- "Will you," he asked her, "defy this gobbledygook?"
- Responding to her alleged intention to defy the ban, Mr Paredes said: "How can they enter our airspace without permission?
- Did Daniel Ortega struggle so hard and so long, suffer seven years in jail, and defy the mighty US at such cost to his country, only to drive his jeep into the sunset?
- "God damn you, you bitch, would you defy me?" he snarled.
- That light came originally from the same source as Fenna's fire, from the heart of the golden star, from the sun itself - but it was light crashing around space at speeds which defy relativity, rolling like waves, bouncing like particles, rebounding off the dead desert of the cold moon and hurled thence, down through nearly a quarter of a million miles, forced through the steadily slowly moving liquid molecules of solid glass which made the windows.
- It then falls away steeply across the limited war band to its low point between the guerrilla war and terrorism bands, where the frequency of such wars in the post-war period has demonstrated the greatest weakness in military deterrence - "Davids" have found it all too easy to defy "Goliaths" in these bands as the French and American defeats in Vietnam have shown so vividly.
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