Sentence examples for stone challenged from inspiring English sources

In later projects, like the United States Embassy in New Delhi and his own Manhattan townhouse, Stone challenged modernist orthodoxy by adorning facades with ornamental screens that evoked Oriental design.

The most influential, arguably, was the first intifada, or uprising, where the image of Palestinian children armed only with stones challenging Israeli tanks and soldiers reversed many (though clearly not all) of the West's false assumptions regarding Israel: No longer would Israel be the heroic David under assault by an Arab Goliath.

With no pre-written script, Canon challenged Stone to create a short film by crowdsourcing inspiration.

And although the hefty, largely interred stones were challenging to remove, landowners still occasionally uprooted them.

It's called "peeler" granite because it peels off the top of the bedrock, alleviating the need to quarry, and the irregular stones are challenging to work with.

Injunctions are not set in stone; they can be challenged where there are valid arguments put before a judge as to why.

When in 1981 the punishment of stoning to death was challenged before the federal Shariah court -- part of Pakistan's extensive Islamic legal system -- a majority of the bench agreed it was un-Islamic.

Despite the fact that shock-wave lithotripsy (SWL) remains a very good treatment option for smaller stones, it is being challenged by endourologic treatment modalities, which offer similar or even higher success rates in a shorter time, with minimal morbidity and invasiveness.

Astonishingly, Stone does not challenge Castro's assertion that the revolution more or less solved the problem of prostitution, when the world knows that sex tourism is virtually the sole growth area in the Cuban economy.

Speaking after a training ride on location, Marcel Kittel said the "very narrow" roads bordered by stone walls would challenge a "nervous peloton".

But a meticulous new excavation of the site, being conducted by a team including on-site specialists in human and animal remains, fossil plants, pottery, and stone tools, is challenging the long-held assumption that the first settlements and the transition to agriculture were part of a single process dubbed the "Neolithic Revolution" (see p. 1446).