The phrase "act challenging" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to describe a situation where someone is behaving in a way that is difficult or confrontational, but it is not a commonly used expression.
Example: "During the meeting, he decided to act challenging, questioning every proposal without offering any solutions."
Alternatives: "behave confrontationally" or "appear defiant".
Their act challenges not memory but the moral imagination; it always has.
An audience likes to see an act challenged as well – it's why people like to see a stand-up dealing with a heckler.
The great Senate of the 1960s and 70s, which enacted the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, challenged the Vietnam War and held Richard Nixon accountable for Watergate, was almost a demilitarized zone where partisan politics was concerned.
Following renewal, an obscure Texas utility district backed by ideological opponents of the act challenged the constitutionality of the preclearance provision, claiming that it went beyond Congress's power because Congress could no longer show that the law was necessary to prevent racially discriminatory voting.
The class action suit, brought under the pregnancy discrimination provisions of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, challenged an obvious inequity -- the fact that the health insurance coverage offered by the chain paid for all the basic health care needs of male employees while selectively excluding the cost of birth-control pills or other forms of contraception.
The Justice Department has brought Voting Rights Act challenges against several other states for their voter ID laws.
Davis only got elected to the Texas Senate due to the Voting Rights Act challenge to Republican gerrymandering designed to disenfranchise communities of color in her area.
Seizing on the fact that Section 2 of the 14th Amendment recognizes the authority of states to bar criminals from voting, both the 2nd Circuit and the 11th Circuit have rejected Voting Rights Act challenges to felon disenfranchisement laws, emphasizing constitutional doubts about Congress's power under the 15th Amendment to apply the Act to such statutes.
So as he contemplates the most incautious of acts, challenging a popular incumbent governor, he is going about it in the most cautious way -- starting almost three years before the election.
However, the additional length of tunnel permitted by the supplementary acts challenged the practicality of the cable system.
