Sentence examples for a brief challenge from inspiring English sources

The unusual activity triggered a brief challenge from agency officials but Snowden persuaded them it was legitimate and continued mining data.

Nor were the Wildcats unnerved by their ragged play in the second half, which enabled Baylor to make a brief challenge in the N.C.A.A. tournament's South Region championship game on Sunday.

And Viktor Yanukovich was elected president of Ukraine, though Yulia Tymoshenko, his opponent, mounted a brief challenge to the result in court.Poland's president, Lech Kaczynski, was killed in a plane crash near Smolensk, Russia, along with the head of Poland's central bank, senior diplomats and military leaders.

In Francis's view, that candidate was Pat Buchanan, a former longtime White House aide who ran for President in 1992 and 1996 as a fiery populist Republican — and in 2000 as the Reform Party candidate, having staved off a brief challenge, in the primary, from Trump.

Hugging the inside rail all the way, Peace Rules, the 3-5 favorite, shook off a brief challenge by Brancusi at the top of the stretch and cruised to a three-and-a-half-length victory today in the $750,000 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland.

Vettel tracked Hamilton in the opening laps, having fought off a brief challenge for second place from the second Mercedes of Nico Rosberg down to the first corner.

As I pointed out in a brief challenging the state system, this leaves the children of inmates at greater risk for aggressive behavior and criminal involvement.

Mr. Bush's own appointee as interior secretary, Gale Norton, once filed a brief challenging the constitutionality of the act, and now she is in charge of administering it.

"A temporary absence from the country does not deprive longtime residents of their right to due process," eighteen state attorneys general and others argued in a brief challenging the Trump Administration's travel ban.

On the Friday before Thanksgiving, the Justice Department filed a brief challenging an important argument of the independent prosecutor Lawrence E. Walsh, in the Iran-Contra scandal trial An executive order allowing the federal government to over ride local authorities on nuclear plants was also passed.

Hydrogen peroxide has a short half-life in cell culture medium (up to 20 minutes) [27], [28], [29], hence we conclude that a single, brief challenge with hydrogen peroxide is able to trigger a prolonged change in cell surface expression of HA-TPβ.