But the banking crisis also rebuts the popular wisdom that Japan can somehow defy the laws of economics and of human sense.

During its journey, the Palominos crew discovers a black hole with a nearby derelict ship somehow defying the hole's massive gravitational pull.

But that was an exception, a surge of love in the mans soul that somehow defied death, or delayed the souls termination something we cant understand.

And, a single span of unbuttressed arch, somehow defying gravity, stood there over the burrow as a token of this ambition.

It's ridiculous that a straightforward traffic-management problem that occurs at the same time every day, with the same people breaking the same rules, should somehow defy solution.

He made it to his feet, somehow defying gravity and the shining motes that swam before his eyes.

There were the scurrying sounds of rats, evidence that the creatures somehow defied the anti-rodent spells and poisons that were both periodically renewed.

"This upsets people because it somehow defies nature," says John Robertson, an expert in reproductive law.

While I hope that Bafana Bafana can somehow defy the odds and stay in the tournament, it is looking very tough.

They planned, had they somehow defied gravity and won the last election, to impose substantial cuts in government spending.