But you have shown me respect and mercy, even in apparent defiance of your own Federation's directives.

By a quirk of Canon Law, Robert's apparent defiance of these rulings was only a gesture.

For the past several weeks, in apparent defiance of a treaty signed in May, Russian forces have been relentlessly attacking villages throughout southern Chechnya.

In apparent defiance of gravity it shot out and over in a back flip and landed neatly on the far roof.

Some buildings, for example, appear not only with their park-front facades, but also, in apparent defiance of perspective, with their sides.

The second was "smearing," in which you pressed the balls of your feet against the rock to gain traction in apparent defiance of gravity.

This is in apparent defiance of the second law of thermodynamics.

Spears thudded on shields as men in bright loincloths leaped in apparent defiance of gravity.

The paper fry-cook's hat on his narrow weasel's head stayed in place, its leading edge almost touching his left eyebrow, in apparent defiance of gravity.

Even so, during the past few years we have seen some large stores opening on Sundays, in apparent defiance of the law.