Sentence examples for challenging juncture from inspiring English sources

The minister said the appointment came "at a challenging juncture in Russia's relations with Australia and many other countries, as we seek to resolve conflict in eastern Ukraine and Syria and pursue justice for the victims of MH17".

Premiering with a one-hour episode Sept. 26, it finds itself at a challenging juncture: actors are leaving for other pastures, its producers are busy with new gigs, and there's that matter of being the last of a dying breed on a network shifting its comedic brand of comedy.

Emerging democracy in Tunisia is at a critical juncture and challenging the culture of secrecy will be vital in developing more open societies.

A true one of a kind, she was smart and determined and challenged us at every juncture.

"What happens if the manager challenges a call at a strategically important juncture in the fourth inning of a game and wins the challenge and then in the ninth inning there is a bad call that will decide the game and he doesn't have his challenge anymore?" he said.

Nicklaus, the most successful of them all, spoke with Watson for a considerable time on the 1st tee on Sunday morning; the discussion resembled a futile one given the scale of the US challenge by that juncture.

Perhaps the view attracting the most adherents, however, has focused on the ability of the empire to maintain its political and military integrity that being the strand apparently most central and significant and the juncture at which that ability is most dramatically challenged and found wanting the period of "the barbarian invasions," meaning 407 and roughly the ensuing decade.

One could argue that the Philippines is approaching a similar historical juncture, where the status quo is being increasingly challenged from multiple directions.

In this respect, the findings bode well for the strategy recently followed by some EU countries and support the view that in the current juncture tackling the challenges facing the euro area requires a multi-pillar approach comprising both fiscal consolidation and courageous structural reforms (Buti and Padoan, 2012).

To accept and even feel ennobled by the challenges of the nation's current juncture.

Our ultimate goal is for the NRI to be part of a growing system of resilience enterprises taking aim at the many challenges communities face at this important juncture in human history.