In 1871, UVM defied custom and admitted two women as students.

"I would like you to know that, had it been possible to defy custom, I would never have insisted on these months of lessons of you."

Since coming to Komarr, she'd been so close to defying custom, law, and her lord-and-husband's orders, and unilaterally taking his son and heir for treatment.

'Artai cannot defy custom - if you ask mercy for Sidacai, he must grant it.'

Defy custom and it will crush you.

Milady will be present; even Sir Revenat wouldn't dare defy custom so far as to deny her; and you shall be there, too!

The Cornell victory continued a pattern in the ECAC playoffs that defied custom.

Which, he said, was why the children's own mother Liesel, after two self-fertilization misfires of her own, had defied Hulzein custom.

Now among Pyanfar's other troubles, she had defied hani custom.

Bradley's willingness to defy custom in a town where procedural and social rules are as firm as they are Byzantine inspires much of the admiration for the man.