Higher prices being met with greater quantity demanded would seem to defy the law of demand.

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In Yucatan, an election for state governor looks likely to go ahead calmly on May 27th, despite an earlier attempt by the incumbent governor to defy the law and install a biased electoral council.

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What is more, some doctors and nurses have said they will defy the new law.

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The two political parties with Kabyle constituencies have already said that they will defy the Arabisation law.

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Instead, he says they are rebels who want to defy authority and break the law.

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Now, Asharaf says, he and his brother have given up on trying to vigorously enforce the law that so many others defy.

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The police are already threatening to defy a no-strike law in protest, and other public-sector workers are preparing to hold ballots on industrial action.

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However, Law Minister Ahmad Bilal Sufi indicated that caretaker officials would not defy the Supreme Court if the judges ordered the government to act.

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