Sentence examples for brief challenge from inspiring English sources

As well as a lobbyist for BAE, Hart was also a prominent figure and mentor in Portillo's brief challenge for the Conservative leadership in 2001.

The unusual activity triggered a brief challenge from agency officials but Snowden persuaded them it was legitimate and continued mining data.

Nor were the Wildcats unnerved by their ragged play in the second half, which enabled Baylor to make a brief challenge in the N.C.A.A. tournament's South Region championship game on Sunday.

Perhaps it is that brief challenge to his status as the ranking center in the draft, but the soft-spoken Kaman animatedly wished that he had a chance to face him.

And Viktor Yanukovich was elected president of Ukraine, though Yulia Tymoshenko, his opponent, mounted a brief challenge to the result in court.Poland's president, Lech Kaczynski, was killed in a plane crash near Smolensk, Russia, along with the head of Poland's central bank, senior diplomats and military leaders.

In Francis's view, that candidate was Pat Buchanan, a former longtime White House aide who ran for President in 1992 and 1996 as a fiery populist Republican — and in 2000 as the Reform Party candidate, having staved off a brief challenge, in the primary, from Trump.

The C.I.A. has composed a lengthy reply brief, challenging some of the Senate staff report's findings.

Senate Republicans have filed a friend-of-the-court brief challenging President Obama's appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, reigniting a confrontation over presidential power.

As I pointed out in a brief challenging the state system, this leaves the children of inmates at greater risk for aggressive behavior and criminal involvement.

Mr. Bush's own appointee as interior secretary, Gale Norton, once filed a brief challenging the constitutionality of the act, and now she is in charge of administering it.

HE has prosecuted war criminals from Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, advised the United Nations on criminal law in Cambodia, Guatemala and East Timor, and joined a legal brief challenging the indefinite detention of an American citizen at Guantánamo Bay.