Sentence examples for closely challenge from inspiring English sources

Spin's 870,000 readers now closely challenge Pitchfork's 1.1 million.

They complain that efforts in the 1980's to strengthen the board's staff by hiring financial analysts able to closely challenge developers' complex financial reports and calculations have long been abandoned.

Bercow is closely challenged by long- serving Labour minister Margaret Beckett and the bicycling baronet, Sir George Young, the Tory chairman of the standards and privileges committee.

Castroneves passed Scott Dixon with 27 laps remaining in the 100-lap contest and was not closely challenged for the remainder of the race.

It was not a setting that allowed for much back and forth, although in more formal circumstances he might have found some of his statements more closely challenged.

Closely challenged by a black opponent in the primary, he eventually prevailed and was elected directly as mayor last November to fill a new, stronger version of the chief executive's job.

Hamilton closely challenged Rosberg in Sao Paulo, finishing right behind the winner despite a spin that cost him seven seconds.

"I was surprised at just how closely challenges and errors depended on ball position," he says.

Moreover, by monitoring the adaptive cascade closely, a challenge organizer can mitigate uncertainty by changing the parameters of the challenge as needed.

The campaign's closely argued challenge to the scheme maintains that, thanks to this natural finger, "green landscape appears to stretch right into the heart of Stroud".

A second and closely related challenge is the lack of an objective and standardized framework or context to make that metric meaningful.