"set up a challenge" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to create or establish a difficult task or goal for someone to accomplish. Example: The company's CEO decided to set up a challenge for her employees to come up with innovative ideas for a new product. Those who succeeded would receive a bonus and recognition from upper management.
Society may need answers to particular problems that scientists, left to their own devices, may not provide – so we set up a challenge and reward the victor.
The group even set up a challenge in the U.K. to encourage homebrewers to make variations of the recipe and produce different styles of beer from bread, which could lead to even more possibilities for the future.
And, unsurprisingly, it's already enraging supporters of abortion rights, who say the law is nothing more than a sneaky attempt to define embryos as "people" and set up a challenge to abortion.
Catalan Dragons overcame Championship side Featherstone with 12 men in Perpignan to set-up a Challenge Cup quarter-final trip to Hull KR.
Papers are full of praise for Raina, who anchored India's innings and helped his side set up a challenging total of 304.
The game ebbed and flowed, with Ireland reducing the UAE to 131-6 in the 35th over, before Shaiman (106 from 83 balls) and Amjad Javed (42 from 35 balls) put on a World Cup record seventh-wicket stand of 107 to set up a challenging total on a turning wicket.
This sets up a challenge for artists.
FINANCIAL TIMES India Moves to Tax Overseas Mergers | Under legislation proposed on Friday, the Indian government would be able to retroactively tax overseas mergers that transfer an Indian asset, setting up a challenge to the recent Vodafone tax decision, The Wall Street Journal reports.
- Leinster setting up a Challenge Cup final against Stade Francais.
HuffPost reported in May that Reid was setting up a challenge over Senate rules to come after the passage of immigration reform, while pushing key nomination battles into July.
In 2002, he did set up a Millennium Challenge Account, which was supposed to direct money to developing nations.
