Still his supremacy is barely challenged.
Backe was barely challenged by Jamey Wright and the Rockies.
In many countries, the idea that the state should control higher education is barely challenged.
Most outrageous, though, was his repeated and so far barely challenged assertion that Iraq was in "material breach" of repeated UN resolutions.
Here in Australia, Malcolm Turnbull ran at the last Australian election on the slogan "jobs and growth" and was barely challenged to explain how he would achieve either.
Although regarded as an international beacon for fairness, the justice system only rarely recognized glaring injustices and barely challenged codified hatred.
Its restless urge to legislate, its faith in the bureaucracy's capacity to "manage" its way around complex problems and its erosion of civil liberties have been barely challenged in the House of Commons.
But we're not serious: any talk of using Medicare funds effectively is met with shrieks of "death panels," and the official G.O.P. position — barely challenged by Democrats — appears to be that nobody should ever pay higher taxes.
With one of the longest periods of sustained peace and security in the nation's history, Israelis were barely challenged by their leaders to consider the plight of the Palestinians and the corrosive effects of occupation.
