Sentence examples for sharp challenging from inspiring English sources

It creates sharp, challenging play.

Her sharp, challenging questions elicit pithy, surprising answers — a disloyal comment about an employer, a confession to a Diet Coke habit, what's in Jack Black's iPod.

However secular its system, it still has had sharp challenges in recent years from resurgent Islamism.

The riots in poor neighborhoods across the country in 2005 were a sharp challenge to that symbolism.

Mr. Zuma, 69, faces a sharp challenge from a faction that includes Julius Malema, the populist and controversial leader of the A.N.C. Youth League.

They say that older players shouldn't meet sharp challenges this way, but he is forever young, win or lose.

In a sharp challenge to Republican lawmakers in January, President Obama circumvented Congress and opted for a recess appointment of Mr. Cordray.

UCU's independent curriculum, high academic standards and insistence on admitting solely on merit are a sharp challenge to Ukraine's educational establishment.

Hama, the site of a 1982 massacre, has emerged as a sharp challenge to Mr. Assad's leadership in recent weeks.

Politically, the promise of a rapid deficit abolition, returning to surplus by April 2018, was a sharp challenge to Labour: beat that!

Ms. Tinsley's report serves as a sharp challenge to Jeffrey R. Holmstead, an assistant E.P.A. administrator who has been the agency's leading proponent of the new rule.