Sentence examples for robustly challenging from inspiring English sources

Of course, election coverage relies not just on replaying the messages of parties, but in robustly challenging new manifesto pledges.

If modern film writing remembers a "debate" around cinema, it also remembers the debate between Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris on the subject of who was authorially responsible for Citizen Kane, with Kael robustly challenging Sarris's auteurist line.

Instead of "robustly challenging both Clinton and Sanders on racial justice issues [during the primaries] – as Black Lives Matter activists did," the CBC "could have sent a strong message to a party that takes black Americans' support for granted, fails to deliver real solutions and too often patronizes them".

David Blunkett chides me gently for not drawing attention to his record as a cabinet minister in robustly challenging examples of excessive political correctness and championing high-performing minority groups in schools (Letters, 24 March).

That view has been robustly challenged by Geoffrey Robertson, QC, whose arguments apparently galvanised the FCO into this internal discussion.

Gohir said she believed the women affected were perceived as not being persistent enough to robustly challenge the practice.

The story has now risen rightly to the top of the news agenda, and management and unions are rightly and robustly challenged on their actions.

This should have been more robustly challenged, along with looking at what impact his words have on the everyday followers of that religion.

"Any attempt to [change the law] … would therefore signal a clear desire to give privileged treatment to religious believers, and would be robustly challenged," he warned.

What exactly are you trying to prove?" A spokesman for Newsnight said: "I think that [presenter] Emily Maitlis very robustly challenged David Starkey.

Obama hadn't robustly challenged Romney's most extravagant and specious claims, so Biden did and wouldn't let anything Ryan said sail by.