Sentence examples for pointed challenge from inspiring English sources

But on another level he was issuing a pointed challenge.

But it also issued a pointed challenge to "politicians and intellectuals," presumably referring to Egyptian liberals.

In a particularly pointed challenge, Hawlati published a column in its op-ed section last week titled "I Am Also in Love With Barzani's Son".

The statement appeared to be a soft but pointed challenge to Ayatollah Khamenei, who in recent years had chosen names for each year in an annual message.

This was not his only pointed challenge to what he called the civil rights orthodoxy; Loury was also a critic of affirmative action and an outspoken supply-sider, promoting solutions to ghetto poverty rooted in entrepreneurialism rather than government aid.

"It seems we don't need time to eliminate the rights, but we need a lot of time to augment the rights," Reding says, in a pointed challenge to governments.

On occasions when Litton responded to such pointed challenges, he never did so in a hostile or nakedly defensive manner.

Obama also levelled particularly pointed challenges to both sides of the black-white dialectic that has guided and determined so much of the country's history.

As Putnam emphasizes, in the end Reichenbach tried to found epistemology and metaphysics on probability relations, but he evaded or dismissed coherent and pointed challenges from Ernest Nagel and others as to how his conception of probability could serve the purposes he required of it.

And we sent a little group of them to rewrite a few pages in the debate book around that to strengthen our answers around Russian interference in the election — put more pointed challenges to Trump on this.

After his team lost seven of its previous nine games, Nets Coach Byron Scott issued a pointed pregame challenge to Keith Van Horn and Kenyon Martin.