After all, the last right-wing president Nicolas Sarkozy promised to "liquidate the heritage of May '68," lamenting how it had challenged France's moral order.
Ms. Brown, of the aviation agency, said that it had challenged the aviation community to "accelerate runway safety improvements" in October 2007.
Justice Souter, writing for a six-justice majority, concluded that the State's explanations for its strikes were "pretextual," noting that it "blinks reality" for the State to deny that it had challenged specific jurors because they were black.
The company said that it had challenged Bosch over the issue before launching court proceedings, presenting evidence of the undercover mission, but decided to take legal action after Bosch refused to hand back its technology or issue undertakings not to use the ill-gotten machinery in its products.
The policy had been improvised through bureaucratic struggle, not planned in advance; it had emerged piecemeal, without formal explanation beforehand or elucidation afterward; it had challenged the law, and the challenge had apparently been meant not to succeed but to fail, and, in failing, to create a politically favorable public image.
In its first moves on civil rights, therefore, the Administration had challenged the Congress not to renew an act that enjoyed great popularity with the members, and had been overruled; and it had challenged the Supreme Court to repudiate a clear ruling of only one year back, and had again been overruled.
It has challenged its neighbors to the south, in India, and to the north in South Korea.
But under Mr Shwe Mann's direction, it has challenged presidential power and asserted its independence.
It has challenged conventional wisdom of what is a planet.
Science is never easy, and throughout history it has challenged established interests.
