Sentence examples for preliminary challenges from inspiring English sources

With lawmakers in both parties bracing for anti-incumbent fervor, several House members were forced to contend with spirited preliminary challenges.

Unfortunately, many philosophers have recently doubted that genuinely unrestricted quantification is even coherent, much less attainable.[21] Note that these philosophers face at least two preliminary challenges, both of which are forcefully pressed by Williamson (2003).

Ms. Belniak said plans for this national tournament included preliminary challenge matches with local celebrities and family matches such as teams of brothers against each other, father-daughter matches, mother-son competitions and married couples against other married couples.

To grow exposure overseas, the Cup's preliminary challenge races were expanded to Europe this year for the first time.

Still, Swogger decided to throw Symyx's chief technical officer, W. Henry Weinberg, a preliminary challenge: Come up with the best configuration of catalysts to make plastics.

This preliminary challenge with clothes pegs of obviously varying forces was done with the intention to let the patients assume that test pegs can objectively cause different degrees of pain ("blinding").

In a statement, the company said the decision addressed only preliminary legal challenges: "The judgment makes no findings with respect to the plaintiffs' allegations, including whether any of them were in fact at the Bisha mine.

Some preliminary observations challenge long-held beliefs about immune responses to microorganisms; however, the lack of spatial and temporal control between the phagocytic cell and microbe has rendered focused observations into the initial interactions of host response to pathogens difficult.

A preliminary statistical challenge was the power analysis, which had to be based on the expected additive effect.

Because of the association of Enterocytozoon infections with WFS in P. vannamei (this study) and P. monodon[ 11], a preliminary laboratory challenge test was carried out to determine the possibility of direct transmission using normal P. vannamei fed with hepatopancreatic tissue of shrimp that originated from a shrimp pond experiencing a WFS outbreak.

Other strengths of the IADPSG criteria include a reduction in the patient burden by using a test of only 2-h duration and dispensing with a preliminary glucose challenge test a test chosen more for its convenience in a crowded clinic rather than for its relation to patient care.