Sentence examples for somehow challenging from inspiring English sources

Did Mr. Dutoit think he was somehow challenging the Philharmonic audience by presenting this recent work?

Even though we all know that privatisation and outsourcing of government services have been an unmitigated disaster – all I've got to say is G4S, Atos, A4e – somehow, challenging the idea that outsourcing is a public good is still regarded as a radical thing to say".

Open conversion can be extremely demanding and risky in relation to the type of the stent graft implanted and can be somehow challenging even for the most experienced vascular surgeons.

She admits her raunchy image is calculated, but believes she's somehow challenging the Hollywood status quo, and is trying to send the message to girls: ''Fuck that.

I am aware of the fact that this manuscript is somehow challenging the current view of role of CTD S2P during transcription, which is precisely why we submitted it to eLife.

When a politician speaks at an interest group's convention, we want to hear that he has somehow challenged or confronted the group, rather than "pandered" to it.

"Downward Spiral felt like I had an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing inside me and I had to somehow challenge something or I'd explode.

"I'm not going to listen to them talk to me about patriotism and how asking questions about the direction of our country somehow challenges patriotism, because asking questions about the direction of our country is patriotism".

I was forced, once again, to reflect on my student days when I had the idea that putting "Writer" in my passport would somehow challenge and unsettle officials of all kinds, prove my interior fortitude, and generally involve me in sticking it to The Man.

But over the years, I have come to cherish that clunky question as some sort of weird koan, one that I ask myself whenever I have the good fortune to stumble across a film from "elsewhere" that somehow challenges my sense of myself, who "we" are and who "they" are.

I think the fact that I am an openly happy sexually active single woman in her early 30s somehow challenges the widely-held convention that all women my age are only having sex in the pursuit of love; that we must want to settle down with every man that we meet; and that if we are still single, we must have failed in some way.