The company successfully defied a judge's order to produce the figures.

"You think we can successfully defy the regent and her majority?"

"That's like saying the local district did not successfully defy the laws of gravity; therefore they shouldn't get their schools back," he said.

Pearl Jam has successfully defied the commercial routines of the 1990's.

But they didn't know of anyone who'd ever been able to successfully defy or escape the Directorate, either.

So large an extent of woodland successfully defies landscape gardening.

Around 12:30 a.m. yesterday, they said, he and a partner were well on their way to successfully defying the conventional wisdom.

Perhaps for the first time in her life, Lilly felt entirely helpless, pitted against forces she could neither fully understand nor successfully defy.

Escobedo liked to be compared with a chief of state, better still one who had defied the yanquis so successfully for a generation.

No, there had to be a more ingenious method, one that had successfully defied detection for so long.