Ms. Hogan, the Warren County district attorney, said that allowing a sweeping challenge would bring chaos by encouraging thousands of defendants to claim their lawyers were inadequate and their convictions should be overturned.
In style at least, the bombings themselves recalled a revolt in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when an Islamist insurgency marked by bombings and large-scale killings posed a sweeping challenge to the rule of Hafez al-Assad, the father of Syria's current president, Bashar al-Assad.
The military's move against Baniyas, a predominantly Sunni Muslim city that witnessed some of the largest protests in nationwide demonstrations a day earlier, was another signal that the Syrian government was determined to crush by force dissent that has posed a sweeping challenge to President Bashar al-Assad's 11-year rule.
In the most sweeping challenge yet to the federal fund intended to compensate relatives of Sept. 11 victims, the families of seven victims who worked at Cantor Fitzgerald have filed a lawsuit accusing the fund's administrator of acting illegally and unfairly, thereby shortchanging the families of all New York victims.
"This is a much more sweeping challenge than that".
And in their most recent attack on the Constitution, Tea Party Republicans are gearing up for a sweeping challenge to the 14th Amendment -- the part of our Constitution that has for the past 140 years defined what it is to be an American.
For his part, Mr. Vavilov — who says his fund has garnered annual returns of more than 20percentt since its start in 2004 by placing global, macroeconomic bets that he declines to describe in any detail — remains unbowed by the challenges sweeping across the hedge fund landscape.
The second seed, Vera Zvonareva, made swift progress after sweeping aside the challenge of Sybille Bammer.
Things look dismal when the episode opens, as BenDeLaCreme practically complains about sweeping the premiere's challenges.
Which brings us back to the Ice Bucket Challenge, now sweeping the social media world.
