Sentence examples for back the challenge of from inspiring English sources

It was here nearly a year ago, after all, that she beat back the challenge of seven older male horses to win the Woodward Stakes and stamp herself, it seemed, as a filly for the ages.

Michelle Kwan, at 23 the doyenne of the sport, turned back the challenge of 19-year-old Sasha Cohen on Saturday night with an inspired and joyful performance in the free skate that had fans on their feet long before her program ended.

But this year the Russian comes to the French Open with an injury-clear spring in her step and the conviction that she can not only turn back the challenge of the pups but that of her so-called contemporaries as well.

The election is Sunday, and the campaign has suddenly seemed to take on weight and moment, with Mr. Milosevic trying to beat back the challenge of those he considers traitors, while the opposition gathered courage from numbers and from the obvious nervousness of the regime.

Hours later it was still hanging from her neck, a reminder of the heroics she performed over eight minutes in front of 16,000 throat-sore converts to her discipline in the ExCeL, as she emphatically turned back the challenge of China's Ren Cancan, knocking the three-times world champion on her backside along the way, to win 16-7.

Nielsen fought to retain its place -- critics have long labeled it a monopoly -- over the measurement of television ratings, beating back the challenges of several potential rivals.

Lost in the Fog's earnings are nearing $500,000, but Gilchrist was even more encouraged by how he beat back the challenges of the second- and third-place finishers, Egg Head and Middle Earth, to win by a length and a quarter.

Of course, without government support, the pace of change may not be fast enough to fully beat back the challenges of climate change, water scarcity, or biodiversity loss.

I believe that the prodigies are holding a moderator gene, or a resilience gene, holding back the challenges of autism and only allowing the talent which is sometimes associated with autism to shine through.

It took until nightfall for the Muslim Brotherhood to decisively beat back the challenge to its choice of Saad el-Katatni, a Brotherhood stalwart, by a vote of nearly 400 to fewer than 100.

The searching mind can be tough to contain, which brings us back to the challenge of bringing full portrait of Turing to the screen.