Sentence examples for challenging the front from inspiring English sources

Their live show is a strange phenomenon: the singer Adam Weiner whirls across the stage and accosts his piano in direct channeling of Jerry Lee Lewis, endlessly challenging the front row to accept his velocity.

And if the supers wouldn't bail out Clinton that year, when Clinton was on the losing end, why would they turn on her this year, when she's on the winning end? (I would say that while Obama was challenging the front-running establishment candidate, he was not a challenger to the Democratic Party establishment the way Bernie Sanders is).

He said he believed the state was his best hope for challenging the front-runner, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts.

But then there's retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who has shown only brief interest in challenging the front-runner before returning to his usual, far more subdued style.

"There's lots to do to challenge the front," he said.

"Nobody every challenges the front-office.

Right now, though, it's hard to see how he could challenge the front-runners.

Those three contests pitted a dominant establishment figure against a scrappy insurgent who challenged the front-runner from the left.

He challenged the front-running David and drew clear in the homestretch, winning by one length over Out of Mind, with David third.

"It makes it nearly impossible for a dark horse candidate to break out of the pack and challenge the front-runner(s) and thus isn't healthy for the process," Mr. Weaver wrote in an e-mail message on Sunday.

Hurricane Fly made a belated attempt to come out of the chasing pack and challenge the front-runners, but it was Nicholls' charge, impressively led by the wily Fehily, which stayed on best up the hill to secure victory.