It challenges the norms.

This is challenging the rule of law.

Maxwell's Demon defies the laws of thermodynamics.

Humour is a sharp weapon challenging an authoritarian regime.

Defiant Tunisia Hosts the World Social Forum Global Voices

And then she challenges all of her competitors to do the same.

One Woman Challenges Perceptions of Somalia One Instagram Post at a Time Global Voices

Accompanied by a squandering of the nation's material wealth that defied credulity.

Clip Depicting 100 Years of Women s Fashion in Iran Challenges Media Driven Stereotypes Global Voices

And I like this because it challenges the way that we design stuff, and build stuff, and potentially distribute stuff.

Now 3D printing can break away barriers in design which challenge the constraints of mass production.

The finale defies logic, gives new insight into the problem, and audiences express their amazement with laughter.

Today, too, it is not America s military strength that threatens or challenges China, but rather the enduring attraction of the 160 American dream.

If you put a five year old child's dexterity against the best robots of today, the answer is simple the child wins easily.

In this first dream, a boy defies the wish of a woman, possibly his mother, to remain at home during a day with such weather.

BRUSSELS The tragic exodus of people from war torn Syria and surrounding countries challenges the world s reason and sympathy.

China challenges Japanese control over more than seven square kilometers of islets called the Senkaku Islands in Japan, and the Diaoyu Islands in China in the East China Sea.

Helgi has to challenge Hothbrodd In the third section (containing stanzas 13 to 20), which is called the Old Völsung Lay , Sigrún's father had promised her to Hothbrodd, the son of king Granmarr.

The BRICS no strings policy explicitly challenges the conditionality imposed on borrowers by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, though the policy remains untested.

Activist Caroline Casey tells the story of her extraordinary life, starting with a revelation . In a talk that challenges perceptions, Casey asks us all to move beyond the limits we may think we have.

Activist John Horne shared another video of a protester defying a police armoured personnel carrier near the house of Ali Salman, only to be shot from behind as he was trying to flee

They're saving us by redefining and re imagining a future that defies and blurs accepted polarities, polarities we've taken for granted for a long time, like the ones between modernity and tradition, First World and Third World, oppression and opportunity.

But, for now, Hirohito remains a singularly unfathomable and isolated character who defies common understandings alas, to the detriment of a better understanding of what actually happened.

Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we ll be miserable if we don t get what we want. Our psychological immune system lets us feel truly happy even when things don t go as planned.

Most notably, Russia s perceived ambition of recapturing its Soviet era influence is challenging the rules based order that was established after World War II, and a surge in religious and political extremism is threatening democratic and liberal values.

Nalini Nadkarni challenges our perspective on trees and prisons she says both can be more dynamic than we think. Through a partnership with the state of Washington, she brings science classes and conservation programs to inmates, with unexpected results.

As a Palestinian, Mr President, you couldn't be fooled, sick as you are of these fine principles, trotted out but never applied against Israel, that state without declared or acknowledged borders which enjoys an impunity which defies all reason.

The Gulf oil spill dwarfs comprehension, but we know this much it's bad. Carl Safina scrapes out the facts in this blood boiling cross examination, arguing that the consequences will stretch far beyond the Gulf and many so called solutions are making the situation worse.

And the second reason is because, whereas in Europe and North America, the state's power is continuously challenged I mean in the European tradition, historically against the church, against other sectors of the aristocracy, against merchants and so on for 1,000 years, the power of the Chinese state has not been challenged.

In this highly personal talk from TEDMED, magician and stuntman David Blaine describes what it took to hold his breath underwater for 17 minutes a world record and what his often death defying work means to him. Warning do NOT try this at home.