Sentence examples for shot challenge from inspiring English sources

The SunShot initiative, which is modeled after President Kennedy's "Moon Shot" challenge, is aimed at getting the cost of solar below $1 per watt by 2020.

You might have seen "Call Your Shot" challenge on social media, where Steph posted a video of him calling -- and making -- a trick shot.

On Tuesday, Ms. Gillibrand handily fended off a long-shot challenge from Gail Goode, a New York City lawyer, in the Democratic primary.

Mrs. Clinton had, after all, spent most of the campaign ignoring Mr. Tasini, refusing to debate him and hardly mentioning him by name as he mounted a long-shot challenge to draw away liberal support.

Which is to say that, in the first week of his extremely long-shot challenge to Hillary Clinton, he deserves better than for us to dwell on an indiscretion that he committed nearly thirty years ago, in 1987, when, in the course of two nights in a Burlington studio, he recorded a five-song folk album called "We Shall Overcome".

Since winning his last mayoral re-election campaign in 1989, Mr. Griffin had lost a 1991 bid for Erie County executive; a 1997 challenge to his successor, Anthony M. Masiello; a 1998 run for the State Assembly; and a long-shot challenge to President Bill Clinton in the 1996 New Hampshire primary.

In his search, associates say, Mr. Kerry has focused as much on personal considerations as on raw political imperatives that other candidates have considered critical: delivering an important state, mollifying a constituency, broadening an ideological appeal or shaking up the dynamics of a long-shot challenge.

Parks's shots challenge commonly held assumptions about segregation – chiefly, that it prevented any physical contact whatsoever between black and white Americans.

faces a long-shot challenge from a man with a very similar name, Republicans are vying to succeed Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn)., and one of Wisconsin's most conservative state lawmakers is making a bid for Congress.

In another rule change, designed to prevent GOP outsiders from mounting long-shot challenges, a nominee must score clear victories in at least eight states in order to be nominated at the convention as opposed to five states.

But with U.S. giants like Snap and YouTube neglecting to build proper tools for video music creation, Facebook has a shot to challenge China's ByteDance.