Sentence examples for closely challenged from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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

At the committee stage of the welfare reform and work bill, this provision needs to be closely scrutinised and challenged.

But legal experts said the court would closely scrutinize any challenged sections to make sure they conform to principles set today.

The film terrifyingly shows how as time goes by, we can build our identities on a lie, or at least on a delusion, and these identities become teeteringly unsafe towers liable to collapse if they are suddenly examined or challenged too closely.