Sentence examples for an indirect challenge from inspiring English sources

But Johnson placed an indirect challenge to Yankee fans: either be with him, or against him.

"Not everyone can process this experience," he replies, grimly: an indirect challenge to us, the cowering audience.

Professor Hollander yesterday issued you an indirect challenge when he received the Alumni Council's top award for service to the University.

Mo is a writer who plays a public game with authority while maintaining a creative space that enables him to present an indirect challenge to this same authority.

In an indirect challenge to Gov. George E. Pataki, State Comptroller H. Carl McCall called today for a moratorium on the expansion of gambling in New York and said the state must devote more attention to gambling's social and economic consequences.

In a double-blind, randomized, placebo controlled, crossover design with three arms, we studied the effects of a direct dopaminergic challenge with the dopamine 2 receptor agonist pramipexole, an indirect challenge with the dopamine reuptake inhibitor methylphenidate, and placebo on measures of mood, motivation and cognition in 23 agonist-naïve PD patients and 23 healthy controls.

Exercise challenge is an indirect airway challenge that results in airway narrowing due to the release of mediators from mast cell degranulation, as opposed to direct airway challenges such as methacholine that act directly on the airway smooth muscle to produce bronchoconstriction [ 19].

These should not be allowed to disappear: to do so is a huge, if indirect, challenge to press freedom.

Indirect challenge tests including testing with exercise, EVH, mannitol or hypertonic saline cause the release of endogenous mediators that cause the airway smooth muscle to contract and the airways to narrow [ 21].

While not subscribing to climatic determinism ourselves, it should not be ruled out that responding to direct and indirect challenges posed by a harsh climate could have been one of the many driving forces shaping Muslim history and occasionally, even the inspiration for some of the doctrines of Islam both in the past and in the present.

Some earlier actions will not work under the new circumstances, and the existing government will surely encounter more direct and indirect challenges.