Sentence examples for challenge acting from inspiring English sources

The major reason for these abuses is the absolute power that the Al Saud family wields without challenge, acting as if they are above the law that they control.

In 2001, when he was mayor of Jersey City, Mr. Schundler was prepared to challenge acting Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco for the nomination until Mr. DiFrancesco dropped out of the race amid questions about his dealings with real estate developers in Scotch Plains.

You ask me the appropriate questions and listen, interrupt, challenge, acting as a typical faculty member of a hiring committee.

Five Democrats remain in the race to challenge Acting Gov. Jane M. Swift, a Republican.

Sadly, in numerous cases, these individuals turned out to be extremely narcissistic – unable to be challenged, acting as if they're above any rules of conduct or standards of integrity, and were obsessed with expanding their own personal success and stroking their fragile egos.

The Ca2+ link with the apoptotic pathways has been established clearly by the finding that the anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 protein lowers the Ca2+ ER content and that Ca2+ can sensitize cells to apoptotic challenges, acting on the mitochondrial checkpoint [32].

"The challenge of acting to him was the big thing," she added.

The pilot (Leonard C. Haas, who has the challenge of acting all his scenes with a puppet) remains a cipher.

A corporate CoP would mitigate this challenge by acting as a central platform, allowing companies to learn about SOI approaches from multiple industries and provide quick access to best practices for overcoming internal barriers to the approach.

Denis Thatcher was the ultimate Thatcherite: an old-fashioned businessman who, in his sixties, cast aside many of his ingrained instincts to rise to the challenge of acting as consort to the UK's first woman prime minister.

"Taming the Horsemen of the Modern Apocalypse" Project: A research team of senior HKS faculty members focused on the challenge of acting in time to mitigate and to respond to the consequences of a broad array of landscape-scale disasters – hurricane, fire, flood, earthquake, accident, pandemic outbreak, and acts of terrorism.