Those aides have told the mayor — at times forcefully — that any campaign to challenge the term-limits law would look like an end run around voters, and could sully his legacy as a reform-minded outsider.
*Trying to persuade Mr. Silver to challenge the term-limits law through legislation, which mayoral advisers said they thought would be more likely if Mr. Green had won the 40percentt of the vote needed to avoid a runoff or if Peter Vallone had been the Democratic candidate.
Last week, Naomi Wolf joined journalist Chris Hedges and others in a Manhattan court in the first hearing of a case brought by writers and activists to challenge the terms of the National Defense Authorization Act, also known as the Homeland Battlefield Bill, that may apply to media workers and free speech.
"Only a cultural war is left," read a headline in the liberal-left newspaper Haaretz this week, atop a column asserting that secular Israelis should now feel empowered to challenge the terms "dictated by the ultra-Orthodox in the best tradition of the Wild West".
Reza Shah Pahlavi decided to challenge the terms of the D'Arcy agreement, to the chagrin of the Brits and their proxy company, the Anglo Persian Oil Company (APOC): a creation of Burmah Oil Company and a share holder of William D'Arcy's company.
In fact, this wasn't the case: all Greece had done was to challenge the absurd terms dictated by Frontex.
On the Eastern Shore, home to the lone Republican-held seat, six Democrats are seeking the nomination to challenge the four-term incumbent, Rep. Andy Harris.
The business leaders we spoke to started using these insights to challenge the short-term, profit focus in their organization — which they said instinctively felt wrong and unsustainable.
In the report the MPs criticise the Treasury for not acting quickly enough to challenge the long-term "growing unaffordability" of the defence budget and focussing purely on whether the MoD's books were balanced annually.
A canvass today by The Associated Press of all but one county showed Ms. Weinberg holding a lead of 616 votes in her bid to challenge the three-term Republican incumbent, Senator Mitch McConnell, this fall.
