Sentence examples for challenged them for from inspiring English sources

Then she challenged them for control of City Hall, and drove them out.

The French established a series of trading posts there, and the English challenged them for control of the area.

Police are hunting two young men who stabbed a train inspector in the back after he challenged them for not having tickets.

People who encountered one wandering were instructed to drop any food in case the animals challenged them for a bite to eat.

The chief justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, assailed the officials for laziness and self-importance, and challenged them for not taking up the case until it became a national scandal in recent days, when a video showing the woman pinned to the ground and repeatedly whipped by a Taliban commander was broadcast on Pakistani television.

That a new Clash compilation and box set – the sixth and the third, respectively – can still generate excitement is testimony to both the affection in which the band are held, and the sense that, for all the decades that have passed since their demise, no British rock'n'roll band since has challenged them for ambition, scope and pure excitement.

But the Miami Marlins, at 14-41, will challenge them for the worst overall record.

If they were, the OFT could challenge them for being unlawfully high.

He also believes that one of his former clubs, West Ham, will be challenging them for a top 10 finish.

But the Mets and the teams that will challenge them for their playoff spot still have to play the season.

But the seven million residents of Hong Kong increasingly fear that mainlanders are challenging them for services, for property and to some extent for their cultural identity.