By the same token, politicians who choose restrictive fiscal and monetary policies over more expansionary alternatives are not necessarily defying the laws of political gravity.
The ' emergence' of the factors of interest should surely be shown as a rational and replicable process, not presented as alchemy that defies explanation.
Among historians and sociologists of science, it is a commonplace that scientists' accusations of plagiarism defy straightforward explanations.
This productive energy seems to defy any efforts to curtail or constrain it.
This is an emotional truth which often seems to defy the interpretations of archaeologists, historians or anthropologists.
The changes that have taken place have been so many and so large that they defy many of the tools of marginal analysis.
Those who support a democratic regime do not have to defy traditional authority relations within the family or in the workplace.
Such fanciful narratives are "mythical" rather than realistic, and the identities they invent defy historical or scientific discursivity.
