Sentences with phrase «while defying»

«Xiaomi is committed to making devices that combine cutting - edge innovations in technology and beautiful design while defying price expectations, and we have chosen Snapdragon 845 to power our next flagship smartphone,» stated Jun..

«Xiaomi is committed to making devices that combine cutting - edge innovations in technology and beautiful design, while defying price expectations, and we have chosen Snapdragon 845 to power our next flagship smartphone,» Lei Jun, founder and CEO of Xiaomi, said in a statement.

Cullen Washington Jr. is a Louisiana - born artist whose work is both substantive and present while defying formal expectations.

Vierkant follows a late modern tradition, in which abstraction is not necessarily the spiritual, as it was for Wassily Kandinsky, but exactly what it is — a literalism that invites words while defying one to use them.

As a sequel it's truly brilliant, building on what came before while defying much of the norm for these sorts of things.

As the final chapter in Kia's design - led transformation story — which began in 2009 and has seen a comprehensive makeover of Kia's entire model line under the direction of chief design officer Peter Schreyer — the all - new Sedona's CUV - like styling and proportions offer all of the functional convenience of the segment while defying its design limitations.

For online dating, events & speed dating for Hindu, Sikh & Muslim Young adults born with Down syndrome pursue their passions while defying society's expectations.

While this defies the modern ethos of the tech industry, we have a responsibility to prevent the majority of unlikely and unwanted outcomes before they occur.

While it defies the laws of physics and seems set to revolutionize the storage market, there's just one little issue: every time he creates the extra fold for one of his boxes, he tears a hole in the fabric of the universe.

«Die Hard» comes to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. with this thrilling but dopey action flick that keeps things moving even while it defies logic

The Electrify 2 is out today, while the Defy XT will join the network tomorrow.

Not exact matches

While «brick and mortar [retail] is a much bigger business... we have reached the tipping point» he said, as in - store purchases defy steep discounts and foot traffic falters.

All this, while Qatar Airways Co. and Emirates Airline defied luxury aviation standards with their upgraded premium cabin configurations that look less like leather seats and more like someone's living room.

Phones are otherwise a unique category of gadget that defies the fundamentals of Moore's Law, whose expanded meaning states that the performance of electronics is exponentially improving while the cost and therefore the price is decreasing along a similar trajectory.

While there have long been small players in the venture capital community who defied the stats and were able to attract some LP money, they tended to be relegated to the fringes of the industry, with less access to sizable funds and the buzziest companies.

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.»

And while Trump hasn't hesitated to call out Republicans who defy him, he's largely come to appreciate the permanence the RNC offers a White House that has had to quickly staff up from nothing — a task that hasn't always gone smoothly.

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.

While it's still early, there's optimism that Defy can help some of these national problems we are facing.

(Zero Hedge)-- The U.S. auto market is at an interesting crossroads with used car prices crashing to new lows every month while new car prices continue to defy gravity courtesy of a somewhat «frothy», if not suicidal, lending market that has seemingly decided that anyone with a pulse is financially qualified for a $ 0 down, 0 % interest, 80 month loan on a brand new $ 40,000 luxury vehicle of their choice.

History and mean reversion can be defied for a while, but we believe it is not «different this time.»

While I was thinking of how great it would be to collect tons & tons of these unique and individual stories, all of which would defy the attempt to categorize it into a label, another thought came to me in a flash.

That couplet, though, is a lyrical exception — many of the choruses, while bursting forth with strong, simple melodies, defy cliché by avoiding rhyme.

CNN: My Take: Why good Catholics are challenging church line on homosexuality Patrick Hornbeck of Fordham University looks into why more Catholics are defying the Vatican on homosexuality, while the Roman Catholic Church has called being gay or lesbian «an objective disorder.»

While their more orthodox brethren seemed to be taking on new life, the liberals watched succeeding generations of their own youth rise up and pass away into religious indifference or into forms of religiosity so private as to defy any sustained connection with Christian institutions.

For a while he seemed to defy gravity.

How in this case man can be said to be free is one of the paradoxes which Niebuhr holds defies rational understanding.11 But if we accept the paradox, while we may say there is an ideal possibility that we could assert our human will to power in history without sinning and thus bring in the Kingdom of love, this is no actual possibility.

Or perhaps he looks out from the hills where once Megiddo defied the armies of imperial Egypt, and listens while afar beneath the moon there comes to him across the wide plain the distant tinkling of camel bells, from the caravans journeying as they did long before Abraham, carrying their goods down into Egypt.

However, for Crossan (and to some extent Borg) the Jesus of history was the center of a Galilean Camelot, the halcyon days when Jesus and his band roamed the countryside, disregarding societal structures, defying hierarchical patterns, irritating elites and confounding the powerful, creating a grass - roots movement with nobodies while at the same time refusing to be its leader or mediator of the New because that would be brokering the kingdom.

Belief is an overlay plastered on to the ego, framed in dualities like hope and fear, while truth exists without any belief and in fact it defies belief, unable to be solidified by the limited ego.

But while Isaiah enters this service as a kind of involuntary volunteer, Jeremiah sees himself from the beginning a conscript, captive to a Word he would, if only he could, defy and ignore (see 20:7 ff.).

Whole milk powder futures tumbled, while those in butter extended their decline, as investors reacted to a drop in values at GlobalDairyTrade which had defied concerns over New Zealand weather.

The 34 - year - old has defied the critics this season by finding top form for the Bianconeri, as he has played a pivotal role in helping them win the Serie A title and Coppa Italia, while they could wrap the treble up with the Champions League this weekend.

Since intentional walks often come in high leverage situations, that brief pause to the game while they throw the four pitches has always got me super pumped for the next at bat and really sold how much of a threat the other team thought the current batter was compared to the next one — making it so much sweeter when the next guy defied the odds and got a hit anyway.

Last season the Weber State product averaged 25.1 points and 6.8 assists per game while helping the Blazers defy expectations with 44 regular season wins and a fifth - place finish in the Western Conference.

... Katarina Johnson - Thompson defies injury to win gold in the women's heptathlon while it's a medal - filled day for the ho...

Katarina Johnson - Thompson defies injury to win gold in the women's heptathlon while it's a medal - filled day for the home nations on the diving boards.

Regis, who endured racist abuse while forging a career with West Brom and defied threats of violence to represent England, died aged 59 last month.

Blackburn defied the odds that day to earn a well earned point against table topping Chelsea, while Blackburn are big odds and somewhat unfancied ahead of this weekend clash with yet another side honing in on the league title, so will it be a case of Deja - Vu for Rovers?

Braga have been defying the odds for a while, replacing Sporting as the third big force temporarily, but their resources are too poor for them to consistently challenge year after year.

Roberto Firmino defies easy categorisation and while he may not have done enough to warrant a place in the PFA's...

Harry's men continue to defy adversity, coming from behind to win on so many occasions this season, Arsenal and Liverpool included, while they showed character which hasn't been seen in a Tottenham side before to pick up draws against Birmingham and Chelsea more recently, the latter two matches they probably should have won had they converted superiority in possession and chances into goals.

But once in a while I manage to loosen that grip - usually when the late afternoon pink tangerine light announces itself in a way that defies you not to stop and feel it on your face, not to just pause look at your child laughing on the playground.

(When, as a toddler, I continued to defy my father and, while looking him in the eye, repeatedly put my finger on the electric socket, I was exercising my power from an identity of omnipotence.)

Unconditional love is learning to respect your child's autonomy, while he is defying you and struggling to control himself because you've held a boundary that is frustrating for him.

So while there is a lot of focus on the youth vote to help explain why Theresa May was stripped of her majority, while the Labour leader defied his critics to gain vote share and seats, this is a big part of the story.

Nunberg provided entertaining television as he went — while possibly drunk — on a news marathon, calling White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders a «fat slob» and vowing to defy a grand jury.

While interim leader, she made the decision for Labour to abstain, rather than oppose, the Welfare Reform and Work Bill 2015, leading to 48 Labour MPs defying the whip.

The best estimates are that there will only be a handful of Conservative MPs willing to vote against the government's position while there will be significantly more Labour MPs willing to defy Jeremy Corbyn's position and vote for action in Syria.