Examples:

• This would not only fly in the face of our aims...
• Not all findings similarly fly in the face of conventional wisdom.
• To accept this argument would be to fly in the face of conservation policy.
• Well, who am I to fly in the face of public demand, right?
• All this may fly in the face of conventional wisdom, but it's the truth.
• They wear protective gear, which would fly in the face of her injuries.
• Would you fly in the face of your father's authority?
• Why do you want to fly in the face of their advice now?
• The legal proceedings against the journalists fly in the face of every legal principle.
• The working methods of the International fly in the face of this revolutionary necessity.