Sentence examples for mortal challenge from inspiring English sources

"Mortal Challenge," the cover of Newsweek declared.

Any one of these – a flagship policy in disarray, senior ministers quitting and settling scores, the backbenches in uproar – would be a mortal challenge to Cameron's authority on its own.

Faced by the mortal challenge to the papacy emanating from Protestantism, and fearing schism due to several stormy conclaves in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, Gregory XV established this procedure to prevent any cardinal from casting the deciding vote for himself.

In John F. Kennedy's inaugural address he observed that Americans were daunted by the mortal challenges of the Cold War and the nuclear age.

In Greek mythology, when mortals challenge the gods, they get turned into spiders, dolphins or constellations.

These two legends are both stories of mortals challenging gods and the dreadful consequences.

Up in the heavens of the stadium in Donetsk, the god of the sport is at home and relaxed, looking down upon the latest of 21 years' worth of mortals to challenge his position as the one true deity.

Mother Nature has a tendency to punish mortals who challenge her power with electronic crutches: the mariner who sails across the seas with a GPS but not a sextant and a good grasp of celestial navigation is sure to find out the true meaning of lost before long.

One game, Mortal Kombat, would challenge this policy.

For ordinary mortals, the sublime challenge of tackling Amen Corner is permanently out of reach.But look on the bright side.

He's a complicated and sophisticated character whose intellect, wealth and prominence position him as one of the few mortals able to challenge the incredible might of Superman.