During his rise, Mr Murakami, a former bureaucrat, had not so much challenged the establishment, as Mr Horie had done, as co-opt it.
This picture is not so much challenged but perhaps leavened by other recent edited collections in the field, which document innovation, resilience and positive transformations (e.g. Catley et al.2012) in the face of environmental and sociopolitical challenges, while acknowledging the drastic impacts of global forces.
"Spirit Fiction," with its rhythmic complexity and slippery structures, doesn't so much challenge John's legacy as move astride it.
Volatile economies, scarce technical talent, and undercapitalized markets aren't so much challenges, but opportunities for these founders.
Another criticism does not so much challenge the welfarist interpretation of equality of condition but presses the issue, how much weight any such equality of condition ideal should have in competition with other values.
His best chance was undoubtedly in 1960 — John F. Kennedy thought so, too — but he wavered so much about challenging Vice-President Richard Nixon for the nomination that Eisenhower warned that he could become an "off again, on again, gone again, Finnegan".
This is making the job of policymaking so much more challenging.
What he wanted, and what he achieves in his best work, was not so much to challenge the viewer as to intrigue him into seeing life liberated from the concrete and the present.
It was strange, growing up in a culture of blame, and it's horrible to see that such eminent people still want to promote that atmosphere, especially when they did so much to challenge it.
