Sentence examples for were a challenge to from inspiring English sources

The travellers were a challenge to the established order".

America's milliners, she wrote in 1946, were "notoriously perverse folk" whose custom hats were "a challenge to psychiatrists".

Such aggressive killjoy tactics were a challenge to a France team that has recently developed a new attacking verve.

Just as √2 was a challenge to the Greeks' concept of number, Zeno's paradoxes were a challenge to their concept of motion.

Yet the works on this bill, which runs through Sunday, were a challenge to the dancers, who responded with verve even if the works themselves could have used more depth.

The great waves of post-first world war immigration, the impact of feminism, the assertion of Aboriginal sovereignty; all these were a challenge to the masculine myth of mateship that was such a strong part of the culture.

It's a challenge to be overcome.

It's a challenge to discipline".

It's been a challenge to me".

It is a challenge to lose weight.

It was a challenge to myself.