Sentence examples for firm challenge from inspiring English sources

In Mr. Cheney's retelling, it became a firm challenge from Mr. Bush that Mr. Putin show where he stands.

6.30pm GMT 27 min More nonsense from Spurs, Vertonghen galumphing forwards only to be met by Kankava's firm challenge.

Wilson's book is a polite but firm challenge to this mind-set, seeking to ally religion and science — "the two most powerful forces in the world today" — in an ethic of "honorable" self-restraint toward the natural world.

The launches should help the firm challenge Nokia's top-end handset.

The Vancouver Whitecaps player caused a San Jose Earthquakes player to do a front somersault with a firm challenge.

But after a firm challenge from Warnock welcoming him back to English football, the 30-year-old former Liverpool striker wasted little time in having an impact on his first game in the Premier League since May 2009.

When the firm challenged the fine, a federal appeals court in Washington overruled the comptroller.

The wireless-technology firm challenged a June 7th ruling by America's International Trade Commission banning the import of new mobile phones that contain the company's chips.

"Picture the taxi drivers around the world acting in response to Uber," says Andy Stern, the former former president of the Service Employees International Union, referring to protests and violence that erupted in many cities as the $62.5bn Silicon Valley on-demand ride-hailing firm challenged conventional, regulated taxis.

Michael A. Carvin, representing an accounting firm challenging the law, told the justices that that "the board is unique among federal regulatory agencies in that the president can neither appoint nor remove its members" and so "is stripped of the traditional means of control that he has over the traditional independent agencies".

Italian Cruise Firm Challenges Carnival P&O Buy.