The truth that fracking contaminates groundwater is out, and no amount of intimidation tactics --either outoight challengescienceience or the arrest of journalists --will put the genie back in the bottle.
Actually, the whole point of early workshop humiliation (masquerading as instructive peer commentary) is to weed out any such troublemakers from finishing their period of apprenticeship, so in reality outright challenges to the authority of the masters must be rare indeed.
The alteration prompted anger, incredulity, fear, but little outright challenge.
In the US, as an outright challenge to the censor, Edmund Wilson noted that "The tone of the book is undoubtedly low.
If the epidemic proceeds as savagely in China as now appears possible, if not likely, then more bureaucratic heads will have to roll, though an outright challenge to the topmost leaders is unlikely except in a climactic, inner-sanctum showdown.
It's a Freudian-Jungian-Felliniesque sci-fi thriller and an outright challenge to its American viewers, who may, in the face of its whirligig complexity, feel rather pea-brained.
Mexico has rejected that suggestion outright, challenging the fairness of shielding a slice of laborers from low-paid foreign competitors, in a trade deal meant to allow most everything to flow freely across borders.
Set in a business world of long white corridors and glass walls and research labs, it's a Freudian-Jungian-Felliniesque sci-fi thriller, and an outright challenge to American viewers, who may, in the face of its whirligig complexity, feel almost pea-brained.
They have called the referendum "illegal and invalid" and an "outright challenge to the Basic Law", the foundational document of Hong Kong's governance since its return in 1997 to Chinese rule.In the week before the scheduled start of the referendum, a website developed with local universities to accept online votes received billions of hits in an apparent denial-of-service cyber-attack.
An outright challenge to the Nigerian government appears to be under way, with an audacious twilight prison break last month in Bauchi that freed over 700 — including many jailed sect members — the firebombing of a police station in Maiduguri last week and the killing of numerous police officers and other leaders in recent months.
The question is whether the Turkish state's response to an outright challenge to its authority was proportionate to the threat it faced and in line with the laws of war.
