The city of Danville abuts the northern border of North Carolina, which also went for Mr. Obama in 2008 but is considered a more challenging state for his campaign this time around.
In addition, in New York, many parents expressed consternation in August when scores fell sharply on new, more challenging state tests that were based on the Common Core standards.
A survey of the nation's 100 largest school districts by Geoffrey D. Borman, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University, found that 59percentt offer summer school as an alternative to social promotion, and 55percentt are using the extra weeks to help students meet more challenging state and local standards.
It needs to determine how much it owes, and more challenging, the state needs to figure out how to finance it.
Meanwhile, after years of economic growth when it was easy to govern, Mr. Spitzer said, and then stagnation, when it became more challenging, the state government had arrived in "an era of a negative-sum game — we're failing".
Determining activated GPCR states will often be more challenging then inactivate states, and the ability to use one active structure as a model for others, as well as recapitulating the activated function in the ligands, would have wide impact.
If Iran acquires nuclear weapons, the expeditionary aspect of its foreign policy will become ever more challenging for neighboring states.
"There is no question that a settlement has been made more challenging because the states have competing interests," said David M. Uhlmann, a law professor at the University of Michigan and former head of the Justice Department's environmental crimes division.
From the beginning the state's banking institutions were closely tied to the state government's fiscal affairs, made even more challenging due to the state's "extremely limited economic and population base", the economic depression of the late teens and early twenties, a lack of experience in banking on the part of state politicians and citizens, and other factors.
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We believe that HB 2 will make it far more challenging for businesses across the state to recruit and retain the nation's best and brightest workers and attract the most talented students from across the country.
