When order was finally restored, an Iranian panelist bluntly challenged the Japanese toughs.
Mr. Greenspan bluntly challenged the administration's contention that big budget deficits pose little danger or that the government can largely offset them through faster economic growth.
Her long-term passion was James VI and I, but she also studied his mother, and in Mary Queen of Scots: A Study in Failure (1987) subjected the queen to an attack that bluntly challenged the romantic myth.
Mr. Obama, meeting with leaders from both parties at the White House, bluntly challenged Republicans a day after Speaker John A. Boehner pulled back from a far-reaching agreement aimed at saving as much as $4 trillion over 10 years, officials briefed on the negotiations said.
Mr. Putin did not declare a new Cold War, but he bluntly challenged the post-Soviet order that had more or less held for nearly a quarter-century, and made it clear that Russia was prepared to defend itself from any further encroachment or interference in areas it considers part of its core security, including Russia itself.
The expert, Dr. Nelson Levy, a former head of research and development at Abbott Laboratories, who now works as a consultant for industry and the federal government on drug development, bluntly challenged the industry's oft-repeated cost of developing a drug.
WASHINGTON -- Top White House advisers bluntly challenged Republicans on Sunday to offer alternatives and not simply criticize administration approaches as Congress prepared to return from a two-week recess and take up a charged agenda centered on core objectives of the Obama administration.
Schieffer bluntly challenged Cain on the message of the ad, saying near the start of their discussion (in an unusual break from Schieffer's usual interviewing style) that he was expressing a personal opinion based on his own battle with smoking-related cancer.
