Sentence examples for explicit challenge from inspiring English sources

But the president's public silence disappointed human rights organizations that had called for a more explicit challenge to Mr. Hun Sen's record of crushing opposition.

In his most explicit challenge yet to government reforms, Lord Neuberger, president of the supreme court, implied that access to justice for all – particularly "the poor, the vulnerable [and] the disadvantaged" – is being put at risk.

Two of them, Belarus and Armenia, have joined Russia's Eurasian Economic Union, an explicit challenge to the EU, while nobody seriously speaks about Ukraine or Georgia as members any more.

This came as a disappointment to those hoping for a more explicit challenge to the regime.Related items Iran's Mir Hosein Mousavi: Out of his shellJul 16th 2009 The Arabs' view of Iran: Mixed feelingsJul 16th 2009 Iran's rebellious students: Go undergroundJul 9th 2009Mr Rafsanjani did, however, cast further doubts on the election results and went on to describe the situation in Iran as a crisis.

In answer to this more or less explicit challenge, some care ethicists have highlighted potential analogies between the way a mother cares for her children and the kinds of care a government, state, or society can offer to its citizens or inhabitants (who presumably cannot provide everything they need and want on their own).

The most explicit challenge to established Aristotelian teaching occurred when one of Regius' students, Henricus van Loon, claimed in a disputation (8 December 1641) that the human mind and body are two distinct substances which are joined together in an accidental union [unum per accidens].

Patrice Chéreau's Intimacy, Baise-moi, by Coralie and Virginie Despentes, and Wayne Wang's The Center of the World are all sexually explicit, challenging preconceptions of what is pornography, and what is art.

The tension is remarkable, yet it's rarely highlighted among the more explicit challenges – say, going up against the 800lb gorilla – faced by entrepreneurs.

Originally pitched to mainstream producers and distributors, the reality show saw 16 contestants compete in explicit challenges for contracts with a major porn studio.

The bill is the most explicit legislative challenge to the federal law by a state.

In the first explicit Arab challenge to the embargo on Iraq, a Jordanian aircraft carrying officials, doctors and medicines, flew to Baghdad.