It is more nearly a conservative challenge to the rightward drift of our politics than anything the people we call conservatives can muster.
Those findings, contained in the first authoritative study of the city's Jewish population in nearly a decade, challenges the entrenched image of Jews as liberal, affluent and well educated.
She held the first Senate hearing on sexual assault in the military in nearly a decade, challenging the military's ability to prosecute crimes against women committed by those in their own ranks.
His concerts nearly always featured a challenge in which a member of the audience was invited to the stage to play anything he liked, preferably an original work.
Mr. Gagliardi also put together time capsules for the town's bicentennial and tercentennial and has set himself a nearly impossible challenge: to find a fact or an artifact from every day in Cheshire's history since 1694.
Moments after he made his Carnegie Hall debut on Tuesday night, Marc Yu, a 10-year-old pianist from Pasadena, Calif., faced a challenge nearly as daunting: Lang Lang, the Chinese superstar pianist, thrust a microphone into Mr. Yu's hand and asked him how he felt about playing at Carnegie.
With millions of species alive today (and orders of magnitude more thought to be extinct), not only describing but also explaining the diversity, history, and complexity of life is a challenge nearly without equal in all of science.
This is a challenge nearly every family confronts.
"This could take the issue off the table during the election year". The Philadelphia court issued its three-page ruling Wednesday evening, just hours after hearing arguments in the case that consolidates nearly a dozen lawsuits challenging the new regulations.
New Yorkers, not prone to questioning their rightful place at the center of the universe, did indeed play a pivotal role in creating a nearly insurmountable challenge for Sanders' self-described "narrow path" to the nomination.
That's a nearly insurmountable challenge for the average citizen, let alone a person with children at home.
