Sentence examples for responding to a challenge from inspiring English sources

The project was inspired, in part, by the legend of Ernest Hemingway responding to a challenge of a six-word story with "For sale: baby shoes, never worn".

Responding to a challenge posed by a magazine editor, George Johnson has written a blessedly slim book, "A Shortcut Through Time," that gets across the gist of quantum computing with plenty of charm and no tears.

The S.E.C. was responding to a challenge led by General Motors, which wanted to have dual-class stock for a subsidiary, Electronic Data Systems, that it was about to take public.

As a young instructor at the Y.M.C.A. Training School in Springfield, Mass., Naismith invented basketball in 1891, responding to a challenge and direction from his boss to create a new game that would keep a class of rowdy students busy during winter.

It has spent tens of thousands of pounds responding to a challenge by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission that wanted the party to change its constitution.

Mr Clegg was responding to a challenge on his LBC radio phone-in from a 17-year-old girl, who warned of pressure on children to behave like porn stars.

Mr. Maliki had responded to a challenge from Shiite militias in Basra by mounting a hasty operation.

At 11.28, Mr Tower responded to a challenge on presidential infallibility with the words: "yes, the President made mistakes.

The Mumbai High Court has asked the Film Federation of India to respond to a challenge to Vidhu Vinod Chopra's "Eklavya: The Royal Guard," a thriller featuring the Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan.

The positive for Big Brown was that he responded to a challenge and showed some fortitude to get by a horse that appeared to have him beaten.

He drew then-Justices William Brennan and John Paul Stevens into a debate — the first sitting justices to respond to a challenge by an executive branch official since F.D.R.'s court-packing scheme.