Sentence examples for challenged forcefully from inspiring English sources

While it is understandable and fairly common to respond to this reality by pulling up drawbridges and prioritising one set of humans over another, such an attitude has no basis in ethics and can be challenged forcefully.

The view that Kant's theory is relevant to the contemporary debate about biological functions is challenged forcefully by Zammito (2006).

The agnosticism with respect to the ultimate constitution of substances and things or of the fundamentum in re of "the ideas thereof" characteristic of Hobbes and Locke is challenged forcefully by George Berkeley (1685 1753), for whom their agnosticism becomes a form of skepticism and even impiety.

He has seldom been challenged as forcefully as he was on Saturday — not by government but by a dogged organizer, Salvador Reza, a few clergy members and politicians and thousands of people who dared to say: Enough.

When the September 1987 Judiciary Committee hearings began, Kennedy challenged Bork forcefully on civil rights, privacy, women's rights, and other issues.

Emboldened, the Islamists have now forcefully challenged him on the niqab.

Majority Leader Mike Mansfield privately opposed Johnson's escalation of the war, but never forcefully challenged it on the Senate floor.

During the debate the Saturday before the vote, Clinton forcefully challenged the idea that her opponents were messengers of that incessant mantra "change".

It said Davidson's behaviour was "forcefully challenged" by other contestants and that he was ultimately asked to leave the series.

In an interview in Denver last week, he forcefully challenged the notion that Boston and Massachusetts are politically different from the rest of the United States.

She smoothly acknowledged her own limitations and trust issues as a public figure and forcefully challenged Mr. Trump over his claims that he alone could fix America's problems.