Sentence examples for challenged in light of from inspiring English sources

Venture capital investing, the high-risk financing of early-stage companies that has been markedly curtailed in the last year, is being further challenged in light of the recent terrorist attacks and growing signs of recession, those investors say.

Recently, the potential positive association between brain size and cognitive abilities has been challenged in light of the high cognitive capacity of some small-brained invertebrates such as bees or ants (Chittka and Niven 2009).

However, formally testing this hypothesis remains challenging in light of the potential confounding influence of ascertainment bias.

The term medical ethics itself has been challenged, however, in light of the growing interest in issues dealing with health care professions other than medicine, in particular nursing.

The above model is challenged in the light of the fact that the length of mRNA/DNA duplex during transcription is considered to be only 7 9 bp and is located within the polymerase enzyme [18].

Efforts to change fire regimes in favor of management priorities, such as carbon sequestration, are being challenged in the light of traditional fire regimes that are more suited for the sustainability of savannas [10, 18 21].

Efforts to change fire regimes in favor of management priorities, such as carbon sequestration, are being challenged in the light of traditional fire regimes that are more suited for the sustainability of savannas [ 10, 18– 218.

The historian Edward Gibbon's observation that "the proudest families are content to lose in the darkness of the middle ages, the tree of their pedigree" may be challenged in the light of recorded genealogies.

"In almost every city people are fighting and challenging foreclosures in light of the Occupy movement," Goldberg said.

But the biggest challenge, in light of Tuesday's indictment of Liberty Reserve, could be government interference.

"Africa must critically assess its capacity to tackle its significant development challenges in light of its development finance requirements.