Sentence examples for poses a direct challenge to from inspiring English sources

All this poses a direct challenge to the government.

Google's move poses a direct challenge to Microsoft, Apple, Nokia and other companies that have strong stakes in the cellphone status quo.

For the Obama administration, the assessment poses a direct challenge to a central element of the president's national security strategy, the reduction of nuclear stockpiles around the world.

It is a radical concept because it poses a direct challenge to conventional thinking on disability and combines both an ideological and practical solution to the everyday environmental and cultural problems encountered by disabled people and their families.

The case, University of Alabama v. Garrett, No. 99-1240, is highly significant because it poses a direct challenge to Congress's authority to enforce the equal protection guarantee of the 14th Amendment.

TWO years ago, I stated my belief that the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program and disregard for domestic and international law poses a direct challenge to our constitutional order, and "constitutes a far greater threat than the lawlessness of Richard Nixon".

A march could pose a direct challenge to the police, who have set up checkpoints on main roads to Wukan.

North Korea's latest declaration, if true, would pose a direct challenge to President Bush, who said two months ago that a nuclear-armed North Korea "will not be tolerated".

This seemed to pose a direct challenge to Beijing, and it sparked the territory's first serious constitutional crisis since the handover.

So far, Allawi, whose group holds 25 seats in the 275-seat parliament, has found little support to pose a direct challenge to Maliki.

FriendFinder Networks, the US parent company of Penthouse magazine, posed a direct challenge to Hefner and his media empire in June with a bid worth the exact amount that secured yesterday's deal.