Sentences with phrase «also defies»

With the disintegration of the tangible spatial parameters, Shapiro also defies the laws of physics — the law of gravity in particular.

Greene, whose studio is in the Hudson Valley near Poughkeepsie, also defies interpretation but trends more toward the abstract.

It also defies expectations, for Leonhardt may apply both fields with a palette knife as well as a brush.

The celestial design that makes anything possible also defies the ability to unify the overarching layout, which sacrifices the subtle narrative joys of a game like Super Mario World — watching as the island expands to reveal more secrets.

Bonert also defies the normal convention of using quotation marks to distinguish speech.

The Ridgeline also defies convention in that it offers only one cab configuration (four - door), one bed length (five feet), and one powertrain (a 24 - valve SOHC V - 6, five - speed automatic, and on - demand four - wheel drive).

Allen also defies standards with a Dolby Surround 3.0 soundtrack.

«Dunkirk» also defies convention by relying on a sprawling ensemble in which no actor dominates, although newcomer Fionn Whitehead and supporting veterans Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, and Kenneth Branagh all carry enormous emotion.

Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes» # 1 rule: no employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress.

Their attraction to each other not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes» # 1 rule: no employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress.

... Not only the laws of physics, but it also defies all logic and reason.

The Aughts: A decade hard to name also defies easy description.

In addition to blowing away the laws of taste, this dip also defies the laws of health.

It also DEFIES ANY LOGIC that you could clam that God changed all the rules about killing people for working on the Sabbath but did so without changing his mind.

It also defies the law of inertia and any common sense and intelligence.

Mid-tier nickel miners Western Areas and Mincor Resources have released positive quarterly results on the back of lower costs and improved production, with Mincor also defying the industry trend by saying it would increase its exploration spending.

Akin, who won a tough primary battle this month, has apologized for his comments but also defied pressure to get out of the election.

Shadow health minister Lord Hunt also defied his party over the issue last month, backing an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill which would give voters the chance to either rubber stamp the final Brexit deal or reverse the UK's exit from the EU.

The skulls do share traits with some other fossils in east Asia dating from 600,000 to 100,000 years ago that also defy easy classification, says paleoanthropologist Rick Potts of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Those features include a broad cranial base where the skull sits atop the spinal column and a low, flat plateau along the top of the skull.

It would also defy a thought experiment dreamed up by physicist Erwin Schrödinger: in principle it is now possible to peek inside his box without endangering the life of the precarious pussycat inside.

When criticized for condemning public schools, Coleman pointed out that the very same democratic results were being achieved by the few public schools that were also defying progressivist doctrine.

It also defied doing just one story and moving on.

They also defied many of the old romance stereotypes; Dylan was handsome, but he was by no means a fighter, whereas Beth could be quite a spitfire.

Players can also defy gravity as they run in full loops, going upside down.

I also defy you to say that what you see there is not modern art because it doesn't fit into Greenberg's or somebody else's conception of modern art.

[FN14] The doctrine also defied the traditional notion that granting custody to a completely dependent mother was unrealistic.

Not exact matches

Defy teaches them to love themselves and their fellow man but also to love and respect their families.

Poland also faces complaints from the EU executive that it is breaching standards which others see as fundamental to the idea of the European Union and defying the bloc's rules.

But it also matters whether he abused the power of his office, defied norms protecting the rule of law, or behaved unethically, even if those actions do not constitute crimes.

Google - backed biotech company Calico has also forged a partnership with a Chicago - based biopharmaceutical firm to develop age - defying drugs.

Quantum computing defies understanding in part because it's not just insanely complicated; it also doesn't obey any of the laws of physics we encounter in our daily lives.

The GOP defied expectations to maintain narrow control of the Senate while also outperforming expectations in the House.

It began with founder and chairman Chip Wilson's sense of a market that even after 12 years defies explanation in an elevator pitch: clothing that is functional but also fashionable, designed for athletic use but often worn for other purposes, appealing to a New Age, anti-consumer aesthetic while occupying pricey real estate in shopping meccas, and all the while pushing a potpourri of empowering self - help messages.

The genre - defying creative minds who brought you the Mexican pizza also plan to phase out high fructose corn syrup and palm oil by 2016, and at least some preservatives by the close of 2017.

Compounding the problem, investors tend to believe not only that their home country a safer place to invest, but also that it will produce higher returns, defying the basic financial concept that risk and expected return are related.

Mr. Draghi also appeared to take pleasure Thursday in defying critics who said the E.C.B.'s Governing Council suffered from internal disagreements that prevented it from aggressively stimulating the economy.

It's important that families are growing together and these values are passed along, which is why at Defy, anyone in the family can also take the online courses and attend certain open events.

The long term impact of Defy is also measured by their impact to improve the recidivism rate.

Or... it's just one example — perhaps also the most easily - recognized one for Westerners — about why religious thought defies logic?

It applies not only to the god of the underworld, but also to the underworld itself, and in Greek mythology the souls of those who defied the gods were tortured there, doing things like rolling rocks uphill forever.

Also incredible animals that defy evolution, and the great Controversy movie

Today, Christians of integrity are thrown back upon the never reducible testimony of Scripture, Tradition and the divine Spirit — a testimony that defies possession, but also manifests an exceptional trust in the insight, imagination, reasonableness and spiritual courage of ordinary human beings when they are modest enough to ask for what they do not and can not possess.

To suggest that we will not also see the emergence of more generally applicable, and more widely lucrative, products defies common sense.

I suppose you are referring to the devil... again teh beast is a symbol of evil and he is also described as many other symbolic things throughout the Bible and they show his evil nature and how he decieves mankind into defying God as Eve did with the apple and as you are still doing right now.

Is it not also self - assertion against God when one is disobedient and defies His commandment?

The 1968 recognition that the Church's teaching on faith and morals could be defied with impunity ushered in a period of «wink and nudge» also with respect to sexuality, in its sundry expressions.

What those ancient Greeks (who also had some understanding of philosophy) regarded as a task for a whole lifetime, seeing that dexterity in doubting is not acquired in a few days or weeks, what the veteran combatant attained when he had preserved the equilibrium of doubt through all the pitfalls he encountered, who intrepidly denied the certainty of sense - perception and the certainty of the processes of thought, incorruptibly defied the apprehensions of self - love and the insinuations of sympathy — that is where everybody begins in our time.

Defying the different ecclesial tastes of the 1970s, George W. Webber also published Today's Church: A Community of Exiles and Pilgrims (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1979), which advocates a style of transience more radical than the one proposed in his earlier works.

@Josh The bible also tells us to stone people to death and that a physical body defied the laws of nature and science, which allow you type comments online, and rise into the air.

I have also found that resting in His presence, as a daily discipline, dramatically empowers loving neighbor as self, in ways that almost defy human nature.