Sentence examples for state challenge from inspiring English sources

"The country presents a democracy challenge, but also a failed state challenge," says Thant Myint-U, a historian.

Other court cases under way include federal inquiries into voter ID laws in Texas and South Carolina and a state challenge in Wisconsin.

Nonetheless, Mr. Cheney, doing his best impression of an armchair political analyst, said he would want to see Mrs. Clinton, who is now secretary of state, challenge her boss for the Democratic nomination in 2012.

In the fall of Funny Cide's 2-year-old campaign, the partnership considered sending him to Houston for a seven-furlong sprint worth $275,000 as part of a series of races called the Great State Challenge.

These "anti-execution 'survivors of homicide,' " the authors state, "challenge a vengeance-rights lobby that has sought a monopoly on the image of crime victims, an angry image exploited and perpetuated by politicians".

Quinn said: "[We have] social studies standards in Texas today that question the separation of church and state, challenge the fact that slavery was the main cause of the Civil War and claim that the red baiting tactics of Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s were somehow justified".

The state challenged the decision, but the appeal was overthrown in November.

In 1997, the state challenged that ruling, but the Supreme Court declined to hear the case.

The Treasury Department has powerful counterarguments, including "sovereign immunity" precedents against state challenges.

It has no direct effect on the other state challenges, but it may influence the other judges.

Reverting to form, Mr. Hancock drew up a complaint against the state, challenging all its restrictions on gun ownership.