Belying Japan's high-tech, clockwork image, the exchange lost almost an entire day of trading in November because of a computer breakdown.

Belying California's reputation as a liberal state, only a handful of counties, all in the San Francisco Bay area, voted against the two measures.

Belying Thailand's anything-goes atmosphere are severely strict punishments for possession and trafficking that are not relaxed for foreigners.

Belying Smith's statement that the weapons were kept boxed or casked, President Wingfield successfully repulsed a fierce, hour-long attack on Jamestown, leading from the front.

Belying Providence's traditionally white makeup is the sizable minority presence it has acquired in the last twenty years, embodied in the election of its first Latino mayor in 2010, Dominican-American Angel Taveras.