Sentence examples for mounted challenges from inspiring English sources

As an assistant attorney general with the justice department's civil rights division he mounted challenges to preserve voters' rights, protect gay and lesbian Americans from discrimination and led the investigation into the killing of the 17-year-old black teen Trayvon Martin.

This is where politicians mounted challenges to the Standard Oil monopoly of John Rockefeller and where Senator John Sherman led a late 19th-century campaign to pass the Sherman Antitrust Act, which was the first law to require the federal government to investigate companies suspected of running cartels and monopolies.

The group has mounted challenges to the government's legal basis for employing harsh interrogation methods.

Before Franklin's scheduled execution on Nov. 20, 2013, Herndon and other members of Franklin's defense team mounted challenges in the state and federal courts, and in a plea to the governor's office.

But that same bullfrog can mount challenges that defy all logic.

Recruiting part-time Army National Guard and Army Reserve troops, who are typically older and have civilian jobs, presents mounting challenges.

Others think he will struggle to win support for bold decisions needed to tackle the country's mounting challenges.

Amid the mounting challenges facing the company, perhaps the hardest may be keeping its basic search operations running smoothly.

The four Democrats represent mainly conservative swing districts where supporting the health care measure could be politically risky, particularly as Republicans prepare to mount challenges against them next year.

Detainees were winning habeas-corpus hearings, and public-interest groups were mounting challenges to the Bush Administration's stances on state secrecy, surveillance, and torture.

In all three districts, the Democratic Party must contend with primary face-offs before it can go on to mount challenges against the Republican incumbents.