Sentences with phrase «defied common»

They said that by laying separate counts of murder and attempted murder, the Crown improperly parsed the killing into two discrete events to be considered in isolation from each other, inviting the jury to reach a compromise verdict that defied common sense.

Kenton Grua, Rudi Petschek, and Steve «Wren» Reynolds... embarked on [an adventure] in late June of 1983, when they defied common sense and the National Park Service and set off, at night, to attempt a record - breaking speed run down the Colorado River in a 17 - foot wooden dory called the Emerald Mile... To get from A to Z, they figured, would require roughly two nights and days of furious rowing.

So much of the movie defied common sense.

This result defied common wisdom as well as contradicting the public belief that eggs increase risk of high blood pressure due to their high cholesterol content.

While the North American Meat Institute called the study a «dramatic and alarmist overreach» that «defies common sense,» the American Association of Meat Processors said that the report «did not consider meat's nutrition benefits in assigning its classification.»

The valuations defy common sense, say mining experts, who rejected the stated claims that the parcels could each be developed into highly profitable limestone mines.

So much of their fake profession is only to justify massive fraud upon the public it defies common sense why anyone still listens to them.

A few weeks later, Benchmark filed its lawsuit against Uber — a lawsuit Kalanick says defies common sense.

He has said they defy common sense, and can rack up debt if interest rates rise.

Many things about that war defy common sense.

too intelligent for gods, for talking snakes, for winged men, talking donkeys, reanimated sorcerers, and whatever other silly little fairy tales you think are real but defy common sense.

Biblical literalism requires an understanding of divine inspiration that denies the humanity of the authors and defies common sense.

A vote by members of the British Medical Association (BMA) in favour of decriminalising abortion «defies common sense», according to the Christian Medical Fellowship.

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

This is one of the biggest hurdles to evolutionary belief — like heliocentrism, it defies common sense.

This defies all common sense!

We understand energy drinks are a popular topic, but to blatantly ban industry from participating defies common sense and flies in the face of open, rigorous and transparent debate on issues» said the Council's CEO, Mr Geoff Parker.

Quite how the Sunday Mirror came up with such ratings defies common logic and needless to say, the Leeds fans were quite miffed by the incident with many venting their frustrations out on social media.

This is just so mind boggling dumb that it defies common sense.

According to Fawell, it was «a classic case of inflexible federal regulations, which defies common sense.

I would agree that in the hands of the devious or the non too bright it can be used to defy common sense by replacing it with high falutin nonsense, and it is pointless to try and reason with those who use it that way.

Italy seems to defy the common trend, maybe because they found a new young face to lead a firmly pro-European government.

«It defies common sense and state law.»

«It defies common sense that limits that work so well during the campaign should be set aside once the candidate has assumed elected office,» said Campaign Finance Board Chairwoman Rose Gil Hearn.

Mr. Hanna's vote defies common sense.»

Why you would allow Indian Point to continue to operate defies common sense, planning and basic sanity.»

This is not only wrong — it defies common sense.

In 1935, Einstein came up with a scenario that still defies common sense.

«Gene patents defy common sense,» says Chris Hansen, one of the ACLU lawyers handling the case.

Such recommendations defy common sense.

«To issue a report that grades the best performing secondary state - funded school in Sunderland (latest published GCSE results) as the worst defies all common sense and logic.

The AEI report concludes that America's public school teachers are overpaid — something that defies common sense — and uses misleading statistics and questionable research to make its case.

The announcement that 17,000 training places will be allocated to the School Direct programme in the next academic year defies common sense and evidence about the programme's recruitment.

In contrast, the incredibly high numbers of students barred from school, often for the most minor infractions, defies common sense and reveals patterns of school exclusion along the lines of race and disability status that must be rejected by all members of the public school community.»

It Defies common knowledge.

It defies common sense and just doesn't make good business sense.

When discussing the possibility of this bill, Welch stated, «It defies common sense that student loans can not be refinanced, just like home mortgages, to take advantage of lower interest rates.»

To say that Facebook, for example, had an «efficient» price the day it went public and then a far lower price a short time after the stock substantially dropped in price is to defy common sense.

It defies common sense.

Understand that less expensive food features less expensive ingredients like guidelines; acknowledgment that old beliefs seem to defy common sense; and questions to help make you think more about what you feed your dog.

The amount of misinformation about the so - called dangers of raw feeding is staggering and defies common sense.

The EPA — seemingly defying both common sense and safety concerns — recently issued an analysis concluding that the risks to human health and the environment posed by oil refinery emissions were low enough to warrant no further regulations.

That defies both common sense and ecological reality.

That reading «defies common sense and infringes upon the property rights of the individual who agrees to waive the minimum setback distance for their property.»

In 2008, the Bush administration released a new proposal for fuel economy standards that were slightly better but still far too low; they were determined through a fatally flawed analysis employing numerous assumptions defying common sense and the law, such as a prediction that gas will cost $ 2.36 per gallon in 2020 and an assumption that technological solutions available now can't be employed by automakers a few years from now.

Why you would allow Indian Point to continue to operate defies common sense, planning and basic sanity.»

The authorsí explanation of their capacity factor equation defies common sense.

However, the promise of fusion - based energy defies the common sense belief that an array of renewable fuel sources is needed to shift away from dirty carbon - based fuels.

«Every technology ever developed... has had some sort of adverse consequences, and sometimes they've been serious, sometimes not... It's unprecedented and would defy common sense if there weren't some problem somewhere,» said J. Clarence Davies, a senior adviser to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN), who takes a more pessimistic approach to nanotechnology's potential.

It seems to defy common sense that trees from forests in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, and other southern states could be cut, trucked to a mill, pulverized and pelletized, shipped to a seaport, sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, and delivered to a power plant in the Netherlands, all in the name of reducing global warming.