Sentence examples for a position of challenging from inspiring English sources

The fans also want a "comprehensive" breakdown of how further investment will be sought to underpin the club's attempts to return to a position of challenging Celtic at the summit of the Scottish game and competing regularly in Europe.

Democrats want to make some response to the president's action, in which he used a so-called pocket veto that lets a measure expire without a signature, because Congress has a longstanding position of challenging the circumstances when a pocket veto can be used.

An editorial in The New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday took the unusual position of challenging a study published in the same issue.

"I don't think Advocates arrived at this position of challenging the Bush administration as a political strategy," Mr. Wagoner said.

Use of the discretionary fund was challenged and by all rights under the anomalous taxpayer standing exception that applies in religion clause cases Roberts would've been paced place in the position of challenging the very president who appointed him contradicting him on a program near and dear to his heart.

Realistically, none will be in a position to challenge the Honda of the 22-year-old Márquez but the season still promises plenty.

But the truth is that female lawyers are rarely in a position to challenge it without fear of backlash and recrimination.

Irrespective of our views on the political divide during the cold war era, the fundamental difference between the US and the Soviet Union, or later Japan – which have at times both been in a position to challenge the scientific dominance of the United States – can be summarised in one word: "openness".

At the moment, it looks as if only Telefónica Móviles of Spain is in a position to challenge the Mexican group's No.1 slot.

We have been in a position of significant financial challenge".

In the face of such mass hostility, in a suffocating political climate where honorable dissent was neither welcome nor considered patriotic, it took a brave, principled human being, particularly one in a position of prominence, to publicly challenge the increasingly arrogant status quo.