The statement from the royal palace hinted as much, referring to a situation where the positions of both king and crown prince could become "vacant".The House of Saud can ill afford for that to happen, since the oil-rich kingdom faces mounting challenges.
Keeping one's head in Leo's kingdom is a challenge, but as is de rigueur in movie farces, every blunder Jamal commits only increases his stature in the king's eyes.
Since lawyers possess the keys to the kingdom, they are challenged to put them to good use.
We should at least consider the idea that Jesus' purpose for drawing lines was not for the sake of making his prospective followers feel more comfortable about their place in his kingdom, but to challenge them, shake them out of their complacency, and call them to repentance for the things in their lives keeping them from participating in God's best hopes and dreams for this world.
As ruler of the eastern Frankish kingdom, Louis faced the challenge of maintaining the unity of a very diverse kingdom as well as asserting his place in the wider Carolingian world and protecting the frontiers from invaders.
Saudi women are holding a day of action to challenge the kingdom's ban on female driving, amid signs of slowly growing readiness by the authorities to consider reform in the face of strong opposition by the clerical establishment.
However, what does not make international headlines anymore is a resilient and defiant social movement and creative forms of civil disobedience challenging the kingdom's legitimacy and holding it accountable to its human rights violations.
And if some of the finer points of the "Moroccan model," peculiar to the country, do not lend themselves to emulation, they at least serve to challenge the kingdom's Arab neighbors to think more creatively about approaches that may uniquely suit their own, particular environments.
"As a United Kingdom we can share the challenges that peaks and troughs (in oil prices) present", he added.
Kerry told reporters that the U.S. understands "the challenges that the kingdom and other countries feel in the region about interference in their countries".
Able-bodied Muslims are required to perform the five-day pilgrimage once in their lifetime, and each year poses a massive logistical challenge for the kingdom.
