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After a year of defying gravity, the slowing economy and pressures on consumers have finally caught up with Home Depot, our data show that the number of improvement projects done by consumers fell over the prior year as people conserved cash for other activities over the holiday period. – Neil Saunders	Found on CNN 1 year ago
After a year of defying gravity, the slowing economy and pressures on consumers have finally caught up with Home Depot, for most of 2022, the number of existing homes sold has been in decline. However, the pace of decline accelerated in December with the volume of completed sales down by a sharp 36.3%. – Neil Saunders	Found on CNN 1 year ago
One of two things is true: Either this kind of blind, rigid, context-free, and common-sense-defying assessment of history is exactly what the Supreme Court intended in its landmark ruling last June in Bruen, or it isn’t. – Steve Vladeck	Found on CNN 1 year ago
[President] Joe Biden has basically launched a modern-style hunger games, which almost challenges these migrants who have no hope in their home country to make this death-defying journey. – Ohio Senate	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We are at a juncture now where we are in a public health crisis, probably bordering on a disaster, the days of continued education of what people already know and are defying intentionally are over. It was quite apparent that they were thumbing their noses at all the public health orders. – Costa Mesa Mayor Katrina Foley	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The government of Japan is getting close to declaring a 'state of emergency' but even if so, no penalty for defying requests to stay home. – Kenji Shibuya	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This week, while one part of the Japanese government is proudly facilitating international cooperation by hosting the G20 meeting, another is quietly extricating itself from the obligation for global collaboration on the protection and management of the world's whales, japan leaving the IWC and defying international law to pursue its commercial whaling ambitions is renegade, retrograde and myopic.... – Kitty Block	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This report highlights what we’ve been saying for months: Iran has been illegally transferring weapons in violation of multiple Security Council resolutions, the United States will continue to call out Iran’s dangerous actions, but the world cannot continue to allow these blatant violations to go unanswered. Iran needs to know that there are consequences for defying the international community. – Nikki Haley	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Russia has given Assad everything he could dream of, without Russia's seven vetoes in the Security Council, defying the views of other members of Security Council, Assad would now have faced sanctions and justice. – United Nations	Found on CNN 7 years ago
It is a tremendous honor and privilege for any university to host a sitting US President, and we are incredibly grateful to have President Trump be a part of this historic day, this May, Liberty students will have the honor of hearing from a man who has succeeded in business and in politics, defying conventional wisdom to become the 45th President of the United States. – Falwell Jr.	Found on CNN 7 years ago
The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. – Quentin Crisp	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. – Quentin Crisp	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The young always have the same problem- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. – George Chapman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. – Martin Luther King, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago

After a year of defying gravity, the slowing economy and pressures on consumers have finally caught up with Home Depot, our data show that the number of improvement projects done by consumers fell over the prior year as people conserved cash for other activities over the holiday period.

– Neil Saunders

Found on CNN
1 year ago

After a year of defying gravity, the slowing economy and pressures on consumers have finally caught up with Home Depot, for most of 2022, the number of existing homes sold has been in decline. However, the pace of decline accelerated in December with the volume of completed sales down by a sharp 36.3%.

– Neil Saunders

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of two things is true: Either this kind of blind, rigid, context-free, and common-sense-defying assessment of history is exactly what the Supreme Court intended in its landmark ruling last June in Bruen, or it isn’t.

– Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[President] Joe Biden has basically launched a modern-style hunger games, which almost challenges these migrants who have no hope in their home country to make this death-defying journey.

– Ohio Senate

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are at a juncture now where we are in a public health crisis, probably bordering on a disaster, the days of continued education of what people already know and are defying intentionally are over. It was quite apparent that they were thumbing their noses at all the public health orders.

– Costa Mesa Mayor Katrina Foley

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The government of Japan is getting close to declaring a 'state of emergency' but even if so, no penalty for defying requests to stay home.

– Kenji Shibuya

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This week, while one part of the Japanese government is proudly facilitating international cooperation by hosting the G20 meeting, another is quietly extricating itself from the obligation for global collaboration on the protection and management of the world's whales, japan leaving the IWC and defying international law to pursue its commercial whaling ambitions is renegade, retrograde and myopic....

– Kitty Block

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This report highlights what we’ve been saying for months: Iran has been illegally transferring weapons in violation of multiple Security Council resolutions, the United States will continue to call out Iran’s dangerous actions, but the world cannot continue to allow these blatant violations to go unanswered. Iran needs to know that there are consequences for defying the international community.

– Nikki Haley

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Russia has given Assad everything he could dream of, without Russia's seven vetoes in the Security Council, defying the views of other members of Security Council, Assad would now have faced sanctions and justice.

– United Nations

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It is a tremendous honor and privilege for any university to host a sitting US President, and we are incredibly grateful to have President Trump be a part of this historic day, this May, Liberty students will have the honor of hearing from a man who has succeeded in business and in politics, defying conventional wisdom to become the 45th President of the United States.

– Falwell Jr.

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

– Quentin Crisp

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

– Quentin Crisp

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The young always have the same problem- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

– George Chapman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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