Sentence examples for an apparent challenge from inspiring English sources

Accusing Japan of disrupting the hazy status quo that had prevailed, China has sent armed ships from various coast guard-like civilian agencies on an almost daily basis into or near waters around the islands, in an apparent challenge to Japanese control.

Many of these scientists have taken an apparent challenge and used it to help them see the world in a new light, or in some other way to bring their uniqueness to bear on the problems they study.

A German member of parliament took a cake to the face Saturday in an apparent challenge to her support for limiting the number of refugees entering the county. .

Seventy-one amino acid replacements occurred along this branch, making identification of the functionally important changes an apparent challenge.

He argued that religious believers tend to adopt counterpart rationalisations in response to any apparent challenge to their beliefs from empirical evidence; and these beliefs consequently suffer a "death by a thousand qualifications" as they are qualified and modified so much that they end up asserting nothing meaningful.

In an apparent further challenge of the previous findings for S motility, mutants defective in EPS production were found to perform TFP-dependent motility on polystyrene surface in methylcellulose-containing medium.

The apparent challenge of the game was then at so low a level that Arsenal could hardly bring themselves to rise above the ordinary.

Another apparent challenge to Vieques's future is cultural.

Despite some concessions to economic necessity, North Korea's essential character remains unchanged, and the family dynasty founded by Kim Il-sung in the 1940s persists without apparent challenge.

The apparent challenge to the hypothesis of co-regulation could have been because of the choice of an atypical avr gene.

Despite these apparent challenges to securing an American audience's attention, all four performances in a theatre with two-thousand-odd seats were close to sold out.