Pinning your future on a partner like that in front of deep pocketed investors surely defies logic.

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That defies logic and really calls into question the quality of the data.

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For someone who has won so much, and so regularly, to lose so often to one player almost defies logic.

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"It defies logic and common sense to align a test to a curriculum that hasn't been fully unpacked yet, " Tanis said.

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But to label these reports as representative of small businesses defies logic.

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But it defies logic to make BP itself the criminal.

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He said publishers fought a pricing arrangement that the government said would guarantee Apple 30 percent profits, so it defies logic to insist there was collusion.

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That determination defies logic and the law, but was a necessary fiction for the agency to continue operating under limited emergency powers that such a finding invokes.

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However, touting breastfeeding as the way to go defies logic.

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But Obama said Wednesday that Boehner's proposal "defies logic" because it raises tax rates on some Americans, which Republicans say they do not want, and contains no spending cuts, which Republicans say they do want.

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So the whole thing defies logic.

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But the phrase defies logic.

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This early success defies the logic of many movie critics who claim that revenge-themed westerns can no longer succeed in Hollywood as they once did.

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Under Welch's leadership, GE defies the conventional logic that the sum of the parts is worth more than the whole.

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Birthday selling defies prudent portfolio logic.

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Though Obama deserves and will hopefully get a stern rebuke from the voters in November, the idea that another Obama term ensures irrevocable harm to the U.S. defies human history and simple logic.

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