Sentence examples for sustained challenges from inspiring English sources

In response to this stress, Christians resort to anger and defensiveness, positioning themselves as victims of religious discrimination and insulating themselves from people and ideas that offer sustained challenges to their beliefs.

For another, one of Mr. Bush's sustained challenges has been to project a proper degree of presidential seriousness, which his playfulness carries the risk of undercutting.

"The focus of policymakers on advertising as the core means of funding public service content beyond the BBC has remained unshakeable despite the evidence of the sustained challenges facing the terrestrial broadcasters".

"Chris Huhne made sustained challenges against the prosecution before pleading guilty at the last minute.

Within the sharp subcultural boundaries of conservative Christianity, they insulate themselves from ideas and people who may issue direct and sustained challenges to their beliefs.

Knowing this, actors are drawn to them by the chance to do sustained, challenging work.

Many clubs have used Challenge Cup success as a launchpad for a more sustained challenge at the upper end of the Super League table.

Invisible as the Falun Gong protests are to most Chinese, they represent the most coordinated and sustained challenge to Communist Party rule since the pro-democracy movement of 1989.

The first sustained challenge to the authenticity of "Falling Soldier" came in the mid-1970s, in Philip Knightley's book "The First Casualty".

A Democrat — Elizabeth Warren, Sherrod Brown, Deval Patrick — should give Hillary Clinton a serious, sustained challenge, for her and the party's sake if nothing else.

And while small steps are being made towards a sustained challenge for Champions League qualification next season Rodgers is under no illusions about the severity of the task.