Sentence examples for stiff challenge for from inspiring English sources

That is a stiff challenge for foreign-born students weak in English.

"I thought he threw the ball well," said Girardi, who noted that the Red Sox were a stiff challenge for any pitcher.

Apparently one reason Mr. DeLay is quitting is that polls showed that he faced a stiff challenge for his House seat in the November election.

A howling wind provided a stiff challenge for the leaders today, but Vijay Singh was too steady to be blown off course.

The accurate reconstruction of such networks from time-series genetic expression data using computational tools offers a stiff challenge for contemporary computer scientists.

Klein, a Heisman Trophy contender, is expected to play and thus provide a stiff challenge for Texas Christian's run defense, eighth-best in the nation with 97 yards allowed per game.

The Western Conference, though, is full of stiff challenges for a team trying to succeed on defense.

It was a stiffer challenge for big family-run businesses like Benetton, which also hired outsiders but whose family is still engaged in decision-making, sowing confusion sometimes about the chain of command, Mr. Vimercati says.

The Financial Times reports "business jitters at Tory tactics" and says industry leaders are "increasingly frustrated at the tactics and tone of the Conservative election campaign amid boardroom concern that Ed Miliband is mounting a stiffer challenge for No 10 than expected".

Steve Gilbert nabbed it by  3 per cent for the Liberal Democrats in 2010 but  faces a stiff challenge from  St Austell businessman  and former pastor Steve Double.

In Colorado's Second District, normally safe for Democrats, Mark Udall, first cousin of Tom, is facing a stiff challenge from Bob Greenlee, a moderate former Mayor of Boulder.