Like Muhammad Ali facing George Foreman, I defy my own strategy and attack the meal two-fisted.

BBC: Singapore��s marathon food tour (bring an empty stomach)

Still, I defy anyone there to have felt even the slightest yawn coming on.

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"I defy anyone to be bored by this phantasmagorical new collaboration, " writes Mark Monahan in the Daily Telegraph, calling the production "a treat".

BBC: Pet Shop Boys launch first ballet

Yes, it is aeroplanes and yes, that can be a bit geeky but I defy you to not to be impressed by the pictures.

BBC: Enviropedia website

"I defy you to go to Intel's own Web site and find all that information within five minutes, " says Robert Rosenschein , chief executive of GuruNet (amex: GRU - news - people ), the company behind Answers.com.

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How can an MP, I mean I defy anybody to try and do a proper job, it, it - much less an incredibly pressured job, in which you work all hours all, all over you know, in the constituency, in Westminster and incredible pressure all the time.

BBC: Andrew Sinclair interviewed Margaret Moran MP

What other corporate bonds do I like that defy the above myths?

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Another you-read-it-here-first: In January I wrote that Carly Fiorina would defy the odds, win the Hewlett-Packard-Compaq merger fight and go on to make it work.

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In particle physics, sound-bite explanations are much harder: wave-particle duality, quantum mechanics, general relativity and string theory make good mathematical sense, or so I am told, but they generally defy translation into English.

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At the beginning of the Obama administration, I had the audacity to hope that the new president would defy conventional wisdom and become a proponent of trade and a good spokesman for its benefits.

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