Don't challenge someone who has nothing to lose.

But, at end of the day, no currency can defy the laws of economic gravity.

Europe s High Court Confronts Racism

Kurdish forces take on the Islamic State

The US does not challenge China s sovereignty, but it wants a peaceful settlement that will maintain Taiwan s democratic institutions.

NEW HAVEN Once again, China has defied the naysayers.

A tragedy that defies any logical explanation confirms only one thing the cruelty of chance.

Women challenging these norms are punished by violent means.

Global Voices challenges people to listen to people beyond their own borders.

These groups frequently challenge law and order through intimidation, extortion, and violence.

Educación Viva (Live Education) has released the first of their videos challenging traditional education systems, titled I Don't Believe in Schools but I do Believe in Education.

Historical forces are complex they defy any simple economic theory.

The Second Great Awakening was challenging women's traditional roles in religion.

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

VIENNA Europe s current financial squeeze defies easy solutions.

In the West, Afghanistan and what Henry Kissinger calls Islamist Jihadists challenges the international order.

New ideas and policies, especially when they challenge the status quo, will always have their critics.

At the same time, philosophy professors and students might also profit from the questions that challenge firms and industries.

The message conveyed by the pope and by the religious leaders with whom he met defied the contemporary assumption that the public cannot understand anything longer or more complicated than a sound bite.

Yet North Korea s world defying belligerency is not utter madness.

Feminists understandably have often shied away from scientific evidence that challenges this critique of sex roles.

One delicious irony in Europe is that Chinese banks are contesting the requirement to subsidiarize in London on precisely those grounds.

This week, we hear tales from Paraguay, Iran, Qatar and the Caribbean that challenge commonly held perspectives.

Powered by new media, identities are beginning to form around new networks of social interaction that often defy state boundaries and have little connection to liberal democracy s traditional institutions of governance.

Watching a film which maybe highlights a character that is fighting to live, or just a character that defies stereotypes, makes a joke, sings a song.

A Muslim girl who wears a headscarf in a public school is simply wearing a headscarf, not provocatively challenging a hegemonic social order.

Local courts, whose judges are appointed and paid by the local government, often simply refuse to file cases that challenge official decisions.

Most Europeans believe that China wants to be a shaper of not a challenger to a balanced world order, a strong United Nations, and an effective multilateral system.

In public spaces, street art (or urban art) represents the voice of the community, marginal groups, and young people that strive to be heard, often defying the notion of private property.

Lusé Fiasco mocked Linton by posting a photo from the satire Instagram account Barbie Savior, which challenges perceptions surrounding volunteer work in Africa

We do not believe that such authoritative organizations as the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, as well as powerful nations, are incapable of bringing Armenia, a State that defies the civilized international community, to justice.

The key question, however, remains whether China is defying market forces at its own risk.

The fact is that rapid social, technological, and environmental change is challenging both the Western and Chinese models of governance and development, with both requiring significant reform.

It has been suggested that such disorders result from chemical imbalances in the brain's neurotransmitters, however some research challenges this hypothesis.

sedgate With the Abla Fahita investigation, Egypt once again challenges North Korea for the title of most paranoid state on earth.

Many of these new flexibilities are open to question and debate, but their base precepts do challenge concepts of core management standardization in rather dramatic ways.

Prions seem to defy all conventional wisdom, surviving pressure cooking, irradiation, and even incineration at 340 C for four hours treatments that are routinely and reliably used to deactivate all known viruses and bacteria.

And the third is that it challenges and this is, in the length of this, very hard to support why, connect all these things but it challenges the high modernist notion of flexibility.

And, of course, there is now the impetus posed by the world s rising economic powers, which are challenging the ability of the US and Europe to dictate the standards of international trade.

Yet North Korea s world defying belligerency is not utter madness. Rather, it is a by product of its own acute fears of regime collapse.

Abe has set out the vision behind his long term growth plan. Japan is a country that challenges, that is open, and that innovates, he says.

But it now challenges the principles on which America s successful policy of a democratic and prosperous peace was based, and it has no alternative model to put in its place.

And greater involvement quickly leads to better understanding of the issues at stake, and the reasons why some policies have been adopted that challenge or even override the sovereign powers of individual countries.

Modern finance has succeeded in creating a default dynamic of such stupefying complexity that it defies standard approaches to debt workouts.

At the Republican Convention in August, the ear splitting chants of USA! USA! and Drill, baby, drill sounded like cries of desperation, as well as of defiance against an enemy who threatens American s divine right to remain supreme.