Sentence examples for lay down a challenge from inspiring English sources

So I'd like to lay down a challenge to the mayor … Bring it on, Boris".

First up, it's become a bit of a Twitter Trip ritual to lay down a challenge for our roving blogger.

With Obama due to speak in Charlotte just a week from Thursday, Romney needs to lay down a challenge to the President and preëmpt his remarks.

It is to the "Dykes and Scudamores and the Blatters of this world" that he wants to lay down a challenge.

The Ukip leader will also lay down a challenge to Cameron to reject "unconditional" immigration from new EU countries by the start of next year.

Morris created this adaptation of Purcell's one-hour opera in 1989, and, as if to lay down a challenge to himself, he took both leads: Dido, the Queen of Carthage, all goodness; and the local Sorceress, all wickedness.

It is stark in the honesty of its findings and the incisive recommendations lay down a real challenge to the government.

Golden Dawn's emergence is shrugged off by many as another unpleasant outcome of the economic crisis rather than a potential threat to democracy.Civil-society organisations, judicial authorities and the police seem reluctant to lay down a formal challenge to Golden Dawn, even though "hate-speak" is part of  its rhetoric both in and outside parliament.

There unfolded in the sunlit storm a thrilling duel between the Shark and the Tank, between Greg Norman, twice former champion, the Australian who came to this Open more on a honeymoon with his new bride, Chris Evert, than to lay down a serious golf challenge, and KJ Choi, 34, from South Korea.

It didn't take long for Russia to lay down a cold-war-tinged challenge for President-elect Barack Obama.

Page A26 OLD THINK ON A NEW DAY It didn't take long for Russia to lay down a cold-war-tinged challenge for President-elect Obama. President-elect Obama