Sentence examples for unexpectedly challenging from inspiring English sources

Adding flowers, however, has proved unexpectedly challenging.

Was there anything unexpectedly challenging about the performance?

So wrote Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) of his large painting "The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope" (1905), which appears in a terrific, unexpectedly challenging retrospective of the beloved customs clerk's art, subtitled "Jungles in Paris," at the Tate Modern, in London.

Identifying QTLs for bacterial preference traits proved unexpectedly challenging, but it became more straightforward as smaller regions of HW DNA were successively introgressed onto an N2 background.

But the campfire-cosiness which gives the blanket coat its appeal is also what makes it an unexpectedly challenging look to pull off.

4 Physical Difficulty The distance traveled each day is relatively short, but the muddy terrain is unexpectedly challenging, especially with a full pack.

The elaborate plan was thrown off in August when the Justice Department's antitrust regulators unexpectedly challenged the merger.

On Thursday, Mr. Rudd unexpectedly declined to challenge Prime Minister Julia Gillard in a leadership vote that one of his chief supporters had demanded.

In 1937, when the court was invalidating New Deal legislation, Congress considered a law adding justices, but the bill was defeated when the need for it was eliminated (one justice unexpectedly upheld a challenged law; another anti-New Deal justice retired).

In the previous primary, an obscure candidate, Sandra E. Roper, mounted an unexpectedly strong challenge against Mr. Hynes.

He is fending off an unexpectedly strong challenge from Bruce Lunsford, a Democratic businessman with rural roots and a fortune.