Sentence examples for seriousness of the challenge from inspiring English sources

The clash was adjudged to have been refereed by Howard Webb, even though he seemingly failed to realise the seriousness of the challenge.

The seriousness of the challenge is underlined in a report from the charity group, Doctors without Borders, which predicts that its efforts to combat Aids in Africa are being hit hard.

"He recognizes the seriousness of the challenge, and the stakes, and he wants to conduct himself in a way that will be seen favorably in history, whether he wins or loses," a senior Gore adviser said.

Despite the seriousness of the challenge, Jackson was long believed to be on the path toward victory.

The first principle is that we can have an effective and comprehensive energy policy only if the government takes responsibility for it and if the people understand the seriousness of the challenge and are willing to make sacrifices.

The sheer number and seriousness of the challenges facing the NHS will allow the coalition government very little breathing space, even after the choreographed events of the last 48 hours.

While it is hardly news that America is facing a Chinese challenge, the seriousness of this challenge is still poorly appreciated.

So while I'm sure the politics are a large aspect of it, I don't think you should downplay the seriousness of the engineering challenge.

Randy Barnett, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center who was an early critic of the health care law on constitutional grounds, said, "This decision establishes the seriousness of the constitutional challenges to the individual mandate".

But the political establishment - from the Tories and their friends in the security services to Labour and union leaders who dreamed of "social partnership" - never forgot the seriousness of the NUM's challenge, nor lost an opportunity to rubbish the strike and its leadership.

In a similar effort to link Hayworth to the extremist fringe and downplay the seriousness of his primary challenge, the McCain campaign released an ad earlier this month painting Hayworth as a laughable candidate and mocking the former Congressman for his supposed connections to a variety of strange conspiracies.