fly in the face of sth

President's Budget Strategy Under Fire
Senior members of the Obama administration are pressing lawmakers to use a shortcut to drive the president's signature initiatives on health care and energy through Congress without Republican votes, a move that many lawmakers say would fly in the face of President Obama's pledge to restore bipar...
(By Lori Montgomery, The Washington Post)

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fly in the face of sth
not to obey something, or not to act in a way that agrees with something:
This is an argument that seems to fly in the face of common sense.