Alfred P. Sloan became president of the corporation in 1923 and raised it to its unchallenged first place in the industry.
The kestrel is now the only British bird of prey in decline, having dropped from its once unchallenged first place in the league table of UK raptors to third, behind the buzzard and sparrowhawk.
So brilliantly had Cavendish and his Columbia team manipulated the final kilometre of the race that Mark Renshaw, his lead-out man, was able to take an equally unchallenged second place.
The time-compensated sun compass enjoys an unchallenged position at the centre of our understanding of bird navigation, where, in combination with large-scale map factors, it is thought to control navigation from unfamiliar places in a two-step map-and-compass process (Baker, 1978, 1984; Kramer, 1961; Wallraff, 2005; Wiltschko & Wiltschko, 2009).
Leaving organizational cultures unchallenged and placing the burden on individuals in extremely dependent positions can only worsen the problem.
'Today we might have turned the corner.' Big, big result for Liverpool, too, with Everton seeing their hold on the important fourth place unchallenged by their city rivals.
That gave him an edge to clinch the title, and he raced virtually unchallenged in fifth place until Ricky Rudd, who led six times for a total of 49 laps, developed engine trouble.
But with her civic rights restored in 1985, Mrs Bandaranaike recovered her place as unchallenged leader and the SLFP's fortunes rose again.
But with so many major countries on board, the AIIB poses a credible alternative to incumbent development banking systems like the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and others that have been in place, largely unchallenged, for 70 years.
