I. noun
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a challenge to sb’s authority
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The leadership saw the demonstrations as a challenge to their authority.
accept a challenge
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To protect the environment we must accept some difficult challenges.
challenge a claim (= say that you do not believe it is true )
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Washington continued to challenge the claim that global warming is partly caused by carbon dioxide.
challenge a stereotype (= be different from the usual idea of something )
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These young women want to challenge gender stereotypes.
challenge sb’s authority (= try to take the power away from someone )
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There had been no-one to really challenge his authority.
challenge/dispute a notion
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Copernicus challenged the notion that the sun goes around the earth.
challenged...to...duel
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The officer challenged him to a duel .
credible threat/challenge/force etc
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Can Thompson make a credible challenge for the party leadership?
deal with a challenge
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I chose this job because I like having to deal with new challenges every day.
face a challenge
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The coal industry faces serious challenges.
formidable task/challenge
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the formidable task of local government reorganization
mount a campaign/challenge/search etc
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Friends of the Earth are mounting a campaign to monitor the illegal logging of trees.
physically challenged
pose a challenge
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The material being taught must pose a challenge to pupils.
present a challenge
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I'm enjoying my new job because it presents an interesting challenge.
resist a challenge
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Mr Taylor is a man who cannot resist a challenge.
tackle a job/challenge
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She said she couldn’t face tackling the job on her own.
take up the challenge/gauntlet
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Rick took up the challenge and cycled the 250 mile route alone.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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But convincing the authorities to license his treatment may not be his biggest challenge .
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However, the biggest challenge we face today is a willingness by some in the entertainment industry to produce whatever sells.
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It's a big challenge but I am sure that together we can do it.
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Finding a place to put the tons of snow now sitting on already clogged urban streets is perhaps the biggest challenge .
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Happiness, in a way, is the biggest challenge .
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Inventing an economically efficient system for counting and cutting emissions that encompasses the public and private sectors, is the biggest challenge .
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But one mile cross country is a big challenge for many of these youngsters.
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C.-The smallest Raiders offensive player presents the biggest challenge to the Carolina Panthers' defense.
direct
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Confronted by this direct and deliberate challenge , the United States has apologized.
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Clinton rarely offers direct challenges to the people; he prefers to play the preacher and the conciliator.
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Yet the symbol of feminism was perceived as a direct challenge to Catholicism and Catholic values.
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A direct challenge to the orthodox test arose in two cases decided in 1987.
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It had now become a direct challenge to his manhood.
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Each broadcasting organization could henceforth pursue its programme policies without fear of a direct challenge to its sources of revenue.
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Nor has there been any direct challenge to the chairman.
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This was a direct challenge to Urban, who had not been consulted or even properly informed.
formidable
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All this proved a formidable challenge to our sweeper, a delightful Rajasthani lady named Murti.
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The formidable challenge for progressive bishops and theologians who dominated the Second Vatican Council was to formulate a compelling alternative.
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Working out an effective strategy to control it rather than let it control us is a formidable challenge .
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Chess posed a formidable challenge for computer scientists.
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At their most fully developed business information systems provide a formidable challenge to the creativity of archivists and historians alike.
great
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The greatest challenge is strengthening judicial systems, which in some countries have long been susceptible to bribery or political pressure.
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In fact, he called fixing Muni his greatest challenge .
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The great challenge in eating blind is conversation.
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Trout fishing is often a great challenge , but rewarding just the same, with gorgeous colored fish and the streamside beauty.
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In fact, as the great challenge of the conference drew nearer, an astonishing change seemed to come over my father.
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It is a great challenge for the West.
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The beauty here is beyond words but not beyond painting, and is my greatest artistic challenge to date.
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A major war, which we tend to fight two or three times a century, presents a far greater fiscal challenge .
intellectual
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There is, she says, little intellectual challenge , hardly any praise, not even much blame.
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Lent was also the season when the Church confronted perhaps its most vexing intellectual challenge .
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Problems, puzzles and policy issues Puzzles are mental tasks or games that present some intellectual challenge but are easily solved.
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Judge Bork responded that it was the intellectual challenge that appealed to him.
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But pleasure, and intellectual challenge , is in response to individual installations rather than to the exhibition as a whole.
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They could see how much they enjoyed actually selling and missed its intellectual challenge and glamor.
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There is no serious intellectual challenge to it.
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It did not present the kind of intellectual challenges that had attracted me into science.
legal
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It should ensure your pet lives in the lap of luxury - without risking a legal challenge .
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But the people whose support Gore needs as he continues his legal challenges still seem to be on side.
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BAfter all, the extension has been postponed for decades by a barrage of legal and legislative challenges .
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Both Cooper and Bond said they have never had to fight such an enormous legal challenge .
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The longevity of a president's laws, regulations and executive orders depends in part on the legal challenges to them.
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They believe a successful legal challenge could re-open the prospect of successful buyouts.
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Her legal challenge has been taken over by another prospective Citadel cadet, Nancy Mellette.
major
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Producing this sort of display reliably and with low power is a major challenge for future on-board computer systems.
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President Clinton will win the Democratic renomination without a major challenge .
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The Torrin Estate provides a major challenge for the Trust because living communities exist alongside beautiful scenery.
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Another major challenge could come next year should voters approve a statewide ballot initiative aimed at abolishing mobile-home rent control.
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Discussion Patients admitted to casualty departments with acutely disturbed behaviour present a major diagnostic challenge .
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Merely earning enough money to keep a family housed, fed, and clothed is a major challenge for most people.
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The environment poses another major challenge to reliance on the car industry.
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Yet when you become an entrepreneur, just getting paid becomes a major challenge .
new
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All she knew was that she presumably represented a new challenge .
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This presents our much decorated medical research with a new challenge .
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The possible introduction of individual education and training vouchers for school leavers will also provide education and training with a new challenge .
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This is, however, a book that speaks directly to the home cook looking for new challenges and tastes.
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And, in his supreme arrogance, new challenges had to be swiftly conquered.
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When the Boston Compact was renegotiated for the second time in 1994, it included a new challenge to the business community.
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It would take more than pistols to counter a new challenge from the army.
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Similarly, a director of a large company resigned his position after ten years, because he wanted new challenges .
physical
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Many blue chip companies use team-based competitions with a series of mental and physical challenges .
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Completely at ease in his body, he welcomed every physical challenge .
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It's been a voyage of discovery for all the crews; a personal and physical challenge which has lasted 8 months.
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A physical challenge could be involved.
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I would face not only a tough physical challenge , but a mental one as well.
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Is climbing primarily a mental or physical challenge ?
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At Bègles we love the physical challenge of the forward battle.
real
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Nevertheless, the Ibrox fixture is part of a carefully-planned World Cup build-up which provides some real challenges to Vogts's side.
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Drake was the only team that offered a real challenge , and Oregon lost that game.
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Over the next decade a real challenge will be the effective provision of care for children and families affected by HIV/AIDS.
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At the same time, coping with the complexity of cultural rules presents a real challenge .
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The real challenge will be to attract an audience and advertisers against formidable rivals.
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I think it will be a real challenge ....
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For example, Frankfurt could pose a real challenge to London as a financial centre for the futures markets.
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The resurgence of the real poses challenges and opportunities that we are only beginning to grasp.
serious
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The rising number of landless and marginal farmers poses a serious challenge .
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The businessman is no longer subject to a serious challenge of any sort.
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There is no serious intellectual challenge to it.
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But next year's election could be a serious challenge .
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The paper claims this represents a serious challenge to other Risc vendors jostling for position in the software arena.
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To my mind, the most serious challenge is to minimize the cost of establishing the smallest possible profit-making power system.
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There is in this a particularly serious challenge to the World Bank.
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We were a shot over in the second round and I began to wonder whether he would be mounting a serious challenge .
strong
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The less we have in physical prowess or other abilities, the stronger the challenge to overcome.
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This historical work itself represents a strong challenge to some of the premises which underpin the idea of structured dependency.
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Moving quickly to mount the strongest possible challenge for the seat long held by Sen.
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Fiorello led all the way with Cazade putting up a strong challenge in the early part of the race.
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But they could help splinter the anti-Dole vote and make it harder for a strong challenge to materialize.
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The psychoanalytic idea of the subject as unconscious, as well as conscious, provides a stronger challenge .
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Labour did best in the north, where it is the stronger challenge to the Tories.
■ NOUN
court
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Tacoma's own programme had to survive a court challenge at around the same time.
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Supporters and opponents agreed on one thing Wednesday: After the bill becomes law, a court challenge is certain.
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After regulatory scrutiny and several court challenges , the rescue package for Executive Life was approved in August 1993.
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After a court challenge , the clerk was ordered to accept the petitions.
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Since then, however, court challenges have given new hope to adherents that term limits will survive.
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George Deukmejian, was to have taken effect in 1988, but has been blocked by a series of court challenges .
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Protests are being planned, court challenges plotted, posters plastered around in opposition.
leadership
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And Bryan Gould could well survive despite his unsuccessful leadership challenge and decision to quit the shadow cabinet.
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Therefore, the leadership challenge is to have no weak links.
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Within the Conservative Party the Gulf crisis lent weight to the argument that a leadership challenge would be inappropriate.
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That was the biggest leadership challenge of all, just as it had been at Chrysler.
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Background to leadership challenge By late 1991 the Hawke government faced a number of severe difficulties.
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Some Tories even forecast that Mr Major would quit voluntarily rather than face the humiliation of a Tory leadership challenge .
■ VERB
accept
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Somehow they must find the courage to accept the challenge .
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So he has accepted their challenge to run a marathon in 2 hours, 10 minutes, 45 seconds to qualify.
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Oh yes, just like him, we're going out there to win, to accept the challenge with a will.
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Mayor Willie Brown, rather than accepting the challenge , shifted the onus back on recalcitrant neighbors.
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In an attempt to copy her sister Sarah's exploits she accepted a challenge which nearly got her expelled.
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It required a trader to accept all challenges .
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This puts theology in a much stronger position to accept the challenge posed by historians and philosophers.
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The Marquis does not wish to accept the challenge from an old man but Juan insists.
face
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It sounds simple, but Aprilia and Orbital faced a tough challenge getting the system to work.
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If so, you face a team performance challenge .
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We hate to face the challenge of ideology.
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Meanwhile Chilperic himself was faced with a challenge from Merovech, his son by Audovera.
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Despite his success, Gruden faces a challenge in trying to keep his championship team together.
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The estate also faces a challenge from Basquiat's former bookkeeper, who claimed to have been his manager.
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Dole also faces a challenge winning over the fence-sitters.
launch
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Provided your employer acts reasonably, you will find it difficult to launch an effective legal challenge of his decision.
meet
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It is widely accepted that City regulation is too fragmented to meet the challenges of insider-dealing and market manipulation.
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Most managers in this study were acquiring the foundation to meet these challenges .
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Clearly those who run the global economy consider success in that area the prerequisite to meeting all other challenges .
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We have met every challenge with strength and confidence.
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How then do these two books meet the challenges imposed by essentially complex legislation?
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We were not able to meet the challenge .
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So we have the financial security to meet our greatest challenge - developing long-term projects.
mount
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It costs many hundreds of thousands to mount a challenge like this.
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Above all, the Arts and Crafts movement mounted a moral challenge to the modern project.
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Presidential candidate McCain is mounting a double challenge: both his message and his method are rebellions against the system.
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Moving quickly to mount the strongest possible challenge for the seat long held by Sen.
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We were a shot over in the second round and I began to wonder whether he would be mounting a serious challenge .
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Also Tuesday, opposition leaders said they will mount a new challenge to riot police blocking protest marches.
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It did not mount a sustained challenge against globally-organised capitalism, concentrated state power or even prevailing discrimination against homosexuals.
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Labour's safety-first approach would be more problematical were the Tories able to mount a realistic economic challenge .
offer
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By emphasizing every defect in her body, she offers a challenge to polite culture.
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Drake was the only team that offered a real challenge , and Oregon lost that game.
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In practice, it is only the largest of building societies which can offer a real competitive challenge .
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The federal court system already offers no discretionary challenges to potential jurors, and state courts could follow suit.
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The artist will seek a project which suits his or her work yet offer some challenges and opportunities.
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Clinton rarely offers direct challenges to the people; he prefers to play the preacher and the conciliator.
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If piranhas can rip a horse to pieces in no time, surely even a seven foot long otter offers little challenge ?
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They just happen to play a game that offers challenges greater than the Olympics, rewards richer than a gold medal.
pose
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This is not to say however that interviewing adults was easier, simply that it posed different challenges .
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Few could gainsay that such growth poses an unprecedented challenge to mankind.
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In another way too, the advance of science has posed a challenge for theology.
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The region has posed an administrative challenge to local governments for years.
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Unemployment, or increased leisure time, poses different challenges .
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Chess posed a formidable challenge for computer scientists.
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The environment poses another major challenge to reliance on the car industry.
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The rising number of landless and marginal farmers poses a serious challenge .
present
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NGOs appear to present challenges to the authority of government agencies.
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At the same time, coping with the complexity of cultural rules presents a real challenge .
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In the meantime, the number of suicide attempters referred to hospitals has continued to present an organizational challenge .
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Home shopping, video on-demand, or other services present similar challenges .
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Silently she brooded on her own thoughts, unwilling to admit to herself that he presented a challenge .
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Eleven or twelve hours under the blankets presented no challenge at all to Uncle Charlie.
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The community health movement in western countries presents a similar challenge to the medical dominance we have described.
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The new century presented challenges that visionaries thought the old forms could not meet.
provide
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The Torrin Estate provides a major challenge for the Trust because living communities exist alongside beautiful scenery.
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Team members stay in one job for several months, but can then change to provide fresh challenges and opportunities.
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Nevertheless, the Ibrox fixture is part of a carefully-planned World Cup build-up which provides some real challenges to Vogts's side.
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If this trend continues, building societies are poised to provide a greater competitive challenge to the retail banking sector. 2.
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Would it have provided the same challenge that running a bigger acreage will do?
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Other reasons for pupils' absence can provide challenges to the school.
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It follows that a flow activity is one which provides optimal challenges in relation to the actor's skills.
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The psychoanalytic idea of the subject as unconscious, as well as conscious, provides a stronger challenge .
represent
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The paper claims this represents a serious challenge to other Risc vendors jostling for position in the software arena.
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What happened there represents a frontal challenge to how the courts, the states and the federal government administer justice.
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They represent a very real challenge to the pub traditional client base.
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I chose seven contrasting but popular sports, some I had played many times before, others representing new challenges .
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This historical work itself represents a strong challenge to some of the premises which underpin the idea of structured dependency.
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Indirectly this must have represented a challenge to the influence of Aethelred of Mercia in the East Saxon region.
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Strikes, in other words, represent a challenge to managerial authority.
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Involving professional services, these two sectors represent particular challenges in managing change.
respond
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How should specialist services respond to this challenge ?
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I responded to the challenge of combat with the tactics of avoidance and flight.
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Small wonder that he seldom responds to the challenge .
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But they keep responding to the challenge .
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It can not respond to unfamiliar challenges or develop new opportunities.
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In June, a Parliamentary committee assembled to respond to its challenge .
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All over the world, natural selection had responded to the new challenge .
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A truly remarkable achievement and one that demonstrates the enthusiasm with which Johnson Matthey has responded to the challenge .
rise
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And Charles noted with relief how Alex was rising to the challenge .
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Rather than offer pure fantasy, the fashion gurus rose to the challenge of suggesting truly flattering, appropriate and stylish options.
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The academic community was slower in rising to the challenge .
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Of course, many princes rose to the challenge , but each lost his life in the quest.
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Who will rise to the challenge ?
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The flood was a second major story, and the staff rose to meet the challenge .
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None the less, as a recent television documentary showed, women still rise to this challenge .
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Whenever she could, she played with her brothers and rose to their challenges .
take
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Obviously, you the supporters already accept that I must take the greater challenge when it comes.
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Johnson gleefully took up the challenge .
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He has taken up the challenge to lead.
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Matsch will take up other defense challenges to prosecution witnesses next week.
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Ability Franchisees come from all sorts of backgrounds, with women increasingly taking up the challenge .
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How seriously did the Conservative Party take the Labour challenge ?
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The couple who took up the challenge have no grandchildren of their own.
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Please contact the Office immediately if you would like to take on the challenge of this demanding task.
throw
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And a man to whom she had just thrown down a deliberate challenge .
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A trial judge sided with Burroughs, however, and threw out the patent challenges before they ever reached a jury.
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Waldegrave threw out the challenge to the physics community last week at the annual conference of the Institute of Physics in Brighton.
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At her readers, she throws the challenge of accepting that any friendship could survive those calamities.
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Now I am going to throw out a challenge .
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Competitors may throw out a challenge by improving the product and offering a better distribution service, for example.
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Despite their pitifully limited numbers they threw down an inspiring challenge to the might of the autocratic regime.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
meet a problem/challenge
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Are both boys and girls shown developing independent lives, independently meeting challenges, and finding their own solutions?
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Capable of successfully and creatively meeting challenges. salary / benefits: Excellent salary and benefits package.
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Ideally, pre-marital counselling, supplemented before parenthood, would meet problems before they could arise.
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These patterns evolve over time, as an organization attempts to meet challenge after challenge in the best way it knows how.
rise to the occasion/challenge
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Barragan rose to the occasion and defeated his opponent.
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Naylor was one of those men who rise to the challenge of danger.
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The team rose to the challenge and fought back to produce another goal.
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We are calling on all our employees to rise to the occasion and become more efficient and productive.
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And Charles noted with relief how Alex was rising to the challenge.
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Bench strength could be suspect, but it has risen to the occasion the past two playoff runs.
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Of course, many princes rose to the challenge, but each lost his life in the quest.
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Rather than offer pure fantasy, the fashion gurus rose to the challenge of suggesting truly flattering, appropriate and stylish options.
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Sunderland again rose to the occasion against better opposition and just about deserved to get the points to ease their relegation worries considerably.
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The academic community was slower in rising to the challenge.
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Which means that even the most delicate of dishes will rise to the occasion.
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Who will rise to the challenge?
visually/physically/mentally etc challenged
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And everywhere, blind and physically challenged skiers are testing themselves on the snow.
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So there are these three visually challenged yuppies at the zoo, checking out their first elephant.
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The organisation as a whole became sensitised to the many debates which faced women artists who were physically challenged .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Each lawyer may issue up to six challenges.
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Holyfield accepted Lewis' challenge to fight for the title.
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I like the challenge of learning new things.
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In grade school, Clint was a real challenge to all of his teachers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Deceptively strong, he can surprise opponents by riding heavy challenges.
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Her legal challenge has been taken over by another prospective Citadel cadet, Nancy Mellette.
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His biggest challenge with this unit will be motivation.
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How to preserve that involvement in an egalitarian context is one of the great challenges of modern society.
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It was an interesting challenge and I responded with alacrity.
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Our city challenge and other inner-city initiatives were enthusiastically received by local authorities and the private sector - particularly in the north-east.
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Overcoming a natural resistance to change is a challenge faced by many companies that want to progress.
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This chapter has concentrated on the challenges of bureau work.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
assumption
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We rarely sit down to challenge some assumption we have always used.
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They ended by challenging many of the assumptions of scientific management and establishing that work had both social and psychological dimensions.
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Transnationalism and interdependence challenge the three assumptions of Realism noted by Vasquez.
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In doing so, they challenge the assumptions of the modern worldview as never be-fore.
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No-one challenged the assumptions which ran throughout the lecture.
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The furore among providers about current government-funding policies which challenge the latter assumption suggests that this is a real danger.
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Another move might have involved challenging some assumption in the protective belt such as those concerning refraction in the earth's atmosphere.
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Moreover, the findings challenge conventional assumptions about the amounts of time the different subjects should be allocated.
authority
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He thus challenged authority simply by declaring that he was al-haqq, truth incarnate.
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Then there are the risks of challenging this in authority .
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Anyone who challenges my authority will have to stand up to this divine power when I come to Corinth.
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It challenges their authority and specialisms and notions of objectivity.
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There were no fractious sects and gangsters to challenge his authority .
claim
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Don't be afraid occasionally to challenge claims for taxi fares and expensive meals.
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Washington continues to challenge the scientific claim that global warming is in part caused by emissions of carbon dioxide.
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The Pembrokeshire Shell Fishermen's Association challenge the claim , and warn that any such ban will threaten the livelihoods of locals.
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None challenged the claim that his marriage was a sham.
decision
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So they went to the High Court to challenge the decision and have been given leave to seek a judicial review.
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Coaches would not challenge trivial decisions .
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The representatives of several cities and states immediately announced their intention to challenge Mosbacher's decision in court.
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Allstate has said regardless of whether the settlement is challenged , its decision to turn agents into independent contractors will remain intact.
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Several unsuccessful companies announced that they were considering challenging the commission's decisions in court.
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The local presbytery agreed, but 10 area churches challenged the decision .
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Attempts by parents to challenge case conference decisions through the courts have not met with much success.
government
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Several rival revolutionary armies were challenging the central government and each other.
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After two years of challenging the power of governments , the movement has become a power in its own right.
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Sanctions have decimated the middle class-usually the source of leaders who might challenge the government .
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Growing forces of opposition are challenging this government .
idea
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Those who saw rural values being challenged by modern urban ideas found another cause to support in 1925.
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People who are engaged in groundbreaking collaborations have high regard for people who challenge and test their ideas .
law
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Some of the no-show gun owners were making a protest, and at least one provincial government has challenged the law .
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The court must first decide whether the banks have the right to challenge the credit union law .
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First, the Supreme Court must rule on whether the banks have legal standing to challenge the law .
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Six states have challenged the law in federal court.
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The Schempp children, who were Unitarians, challenged the law .
leadership
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It is challenging for the same leadership in applications software.
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Heseltine declares that he can not foresee the circumstances in which he would challenge her for the leadership .
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In adopting this crusade, the press barons were also directly challenging Baldwin's leadership of the Government and of the party.
notion
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From time to time evidence appears which challenges received notions of the truth.
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Advanced computers are even beginning to challenge long-held notions about intelligence and thought.
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This finding challenges the notion that carbohydrate malabsorption is uncommon in patients with chronic pancreatitis.
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Beyond these formal structures, the folks at Thayer challenge yet one more notion that often shapes the structures of schooling.
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Anti-debt campaigners in the South are urging their counterparts in the North to challenge the official notion of poverty reduction.
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But lately some researchers are challenging the notion that memory loss is inevitable.
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Here he challenges the notion that practice is activity and not thought.
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Some challenge the notion of corporate culture as the primary culprit.
power
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A cornettist equally capable of filigree delicacy and challenging power , Barnard's contribution to jazz is considerable.
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The council was established by the Legislature to challenge the power of the federal government.
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They also enabled women to challenge male professional power while at the same time implicating them in coercive class regulation.
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We must strengthen the rights of consumers and challenge the power of monopolies and big business.
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After two years of challenging the power of governments, the movement has become a power in its own right.
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The feminist repeal movement was highly successful in challenging the gendered power relations inscribed within medical interventionism.
rule
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Verney said the party is ready to challenge that rule in court.
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But many railroads have challenged these rules in the past.
view
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Yet much of the research of the last fifteen years in writing has challenged this view .
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Mars' book challenges this view , and we will include two extracts from it.
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Models of interdependence focus on interstate relations but challenge the realist view of states as independent actors.
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This criticism challenges the view of human nature and the human condition constructed by liberal theories.
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However, no one has seriously challenged the view that attempted suicide should be regarded as an inappropriate way of coping with problems.
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It can be exciting to challenge people's view of me.
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He challenges the orthodox view that elderly people turn to formal agencies for help only when informal support is absent or inadequate.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
visually/physically/mentally etc challenged
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And everywhere, blind and physically challenged skiers are testing themselves on the snow.
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So there are these three visually challenged yuppies at the zoo, checking out their first elephant.
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The organisation as a whole became sensitised to the many debates which faced women artists who were physically challenged .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Billboard companies say they will challenge the new law in court.
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Guards were ordered to challenge anyone entering the building.
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He's a good choir director - he really challenges us.
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Many doctors have challenged the accuracy of his findings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I challenge this assumption, and question the push into Putumayo.
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Owner Fred Davies is challenging the council after being refused permission to convert the ailing hotel into a nursing home.
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That claim has been challenged and much debated, but it seems to hold up.
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The beatitudes are counter-cultural, because they correct and challenge the ways in which we understand happiness.
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We were challenging all the traditional methods of testing for poisons.