Sentence examples for violent challenge from inspiring English sources

Even after Messi was carried from the field, even in the few moments left to play, Barcelona's Javier Mascherano made a violent challenge on Tiago Mendes.

Since September 11th 2001, and the rise of radical Islam as the sole violent challenge to an American-shaped international order, America's focus on the region between the Nile and the Indus rivers has been obsessive.

The most fascinating portions of the book present Mr. Schell's evidence for rethinking history from a nonviolent perspective, arguing that dramatic and unpredictable changes have often been managed without a violent challenge to the established order.

The question raised by most Saudi commentators has been how willing the Al-Sauds might be to alter long established patterns of rule in a way that would let them face the most violent challenge yet.

Nonetheless, all of al-Qaeda's efforts to kill President Pervez Musharraf, or to deflect Pakistan from an American alliance that has grown steadily closer since September 11th, have so far come to naught.As in the 1990s, when jihadists have mounted a violent challenge to the authoritarian states of the Muslim world they have been defeated.

When Mr. Sadr began a series of uprisings in April that spread across southern Iraq, he gave notice of his determination to mount a violent challenge to the American presence here, and to use his defiance as a path to political pre-eminence among Shiite leaders.

A government elected this way will certainly continue to face violent challenges.

Contrary to what some may believe, it is not just eastern and southern Europe that face violent challenges.

It does not want to repeat the mistakes of Islamists in Egypt and other Arab countries where violent challenges have led to bloody internal conflict.

With the help of generals who remained loyal to her, she faced down all of these: the irony was that a woman who came to power on a platform of peace should have to devote so much effort to fending off recurring violent challenges.

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