Their candid demeanour was punctuated by long, uncomfortable silences, creating a challenging atmosphere for even the most self-assured operators.
"I always enjoy competing in Europe as the tracks are varied and always challenging, the atmosphere is brilliant and lots of family and friends come out to support me which I love," she said on British Skeleton's official website.
I like football because of those moments you can enjoy – that is not only a perfect goal, it is a perfect challenge, header, atmosphere in the stadium, that is what I like in football and it's our job to do it as often as possible.
But in a rowdy Commons atmosphere, Labour MPs, as well as some Lib Dems and Conservatives, challenged claims that the rise was progressive for students.
Green campaigners have challenged the plants on many fronts, including their emissions of greenhouse gases and dioxins into the local atmosphere.
The game world's fusion of high technology and ethnic, tribal atmospheres proved challenging at first.
In each lesson the wilder rhetorical thrusts are slyly deflected by audience members, friends and relatives who stand up to challenge the speaker; the thick atmosphere of passionate conviction that surrounds Costello is lightened, somewhat, by dark twinklings of narrative irony.
The municipality's welcoming atmosphere, and its willingness to challenge orthodoxies about the genocide, is in many ways a Kurdish story.
Guiding CE5-T1 back to Earth poses a new challenge; entering the atmosphere at a speed of 11.2 km/s is nearly 50% faster than the return speed of China's Shenzhou spacecraft, which has carried orbiting astronauts safely back to Earth's surface.
I've tried to foster an atmosphere where people speak up and challenge my views.
