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

Challenge \Chal"lenge\, v. i. To assert a right; to claim a place.

Where nature doth with merit challenge.
--Shak.

Challenge

Challenge \Chal"lenge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Challenged; p. pr. & vb. n. Challenging.] [OE. chalengen to accuse, claim, OF. chalengier, chalongier, to claim, accuse, dispute, fr. L. calumniar to attack with false accusations. See Challenge, n., and cf. Calumniate.]

  1. To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.

    I challenge any man to make any pretense to power by right of fatherhood.
    --Locke.

  2. To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat.

    By this I challenge him to single fight.
    --Shak.

  3. To claim as due; to demand as a right.

    Challenge better terms.
    --Addison.

  4. To censure; to blame. [Obs.]

    He complained of the emperors . . . and challenged them for that he had no greater revenues . . . from them.
    --Holland.

  5. (Mil.) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with ``Who comes there?''

  6. To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.

  7. (Law) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court.

  8. To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter. [U. S.]

    To challenge to the array, favor, polls. See under Challenge, n.

Challenge

Challenge \Chal"lenge\, n. [OE. chalenge claim, accusation, challenge, OF. chalenge, chalonge, claim, accusation, contest, fr. L. calumnia false accusation, chicanery. See Calumny.]

  1. An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.

    A challenge to controversy.
    --Goldsmith.

  2. The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.

  3. A claim or demand. [Obs.]

    There must be no challenge of superiority.
    --Collier.

  4. (Hunting) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.

  5. (Law) An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause.
    --Blackstone

  6. An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered. [U. S.]

    Challenge to the array (Law), an exception to the whole panel.

    Challenge to the favor, the alleging a special cause, the sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and office it is to decide upon it.

    Challenge to the polls, an exception taken to any one or more of the individual jurors returned.

    Peremptory challenge, a privilege sometimes allowed to defendants, of challenging a certain number of jurors (fixed by statute in different States) without assigning any cause.

    Principal challenge, that which the law allows to be sufficient if found to be true.

Related phrases:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
challenge

early 14c., "something one can be accused of, a fault, blemish;" mid-14c., "false accusation, malicious charge; accusation of wrong-doing," also "act of laying claim" (to something), from Anglo-French chalenge, Old French chalonge "calumny, slander; demand, opposition," in legal use, "accusation, claim, dispute," from Anglo-French chalengier, Old French chalongier "to accuse, to dispute" (see challenge (v.)). Accusatory connotations died out 17c. Meanings "an objection" in law, etc.; "a calling to fight" are from mid-15c. Meaning "difficult task" is from 1954.

challenge

c.1200, "to rebuke," from Old French chalongier "complain, protest; haggle, quibble," from Vulgar Latin calumniare "to accuse falsely," from Latin calumniari "to accuse falsely, misrepresent, slander," from calumnia "trickery" (see calumny).\n

\nFrom late 13c. as "to object to, take exception to;" c.1300 as "to accuse," especially "to accuse falsely," also "to call to account;" late 14c. as "to call to fight." Also used in Middle English with sense "claim, take to oneself." Related: Challenged; challenging.

Wiktionary
challenge

n. 1 A confrontation; a dare. 2 # An instigation or antagonization intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not. vb. 1 To invite someone to take part in a competition. 2 To dare someone. 3 To dispute something. 4 (label en legal) To make a formal objection to a juror. 5 (label en obsolete) To claim as due; to demand as a right. 6 (label en obsolete) To censure; to blame. 7 (label en military) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines). 8 (label en US) To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.

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WordNet
challenge

  1. v. take exception to; "She challenged his claims" [syn: dispute, gainsay]

  2. issue a challenge to; "Fischer challenged Spassky to a match"

  3. ask for identification; "The illegal immigrant was challenged by the border guard"

  4. raise a formal objection in a court of law [syn: take exception]

challenge

  1. n. a demanding or stimulating situation; "they reacted irrationally to the challenge of Russian power"

  2. a call to engage in a contest or fight

  3. questioning a statement and demanding an explanation; "his challenge of the assumption that Japan is still our enemy"

  4. a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror

  5. a demand by a sentry for a password or identification

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Gazetteer
Challenge-Brownsville, CA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in California
Population (2000): 1069
Housing Units (2000): 580
Land area (2000): 9.664709 sq. miles (25.031480 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9.664709 sq. miles (25.031480 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12612
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 39.472574 N, 121.265028 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Challenge-Brownsville, CA
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Wikipedia
Challenge (TV channel)

Challenge is a British digital television channel owned by Sky plc. The channel mostly transmits game shows from the UK and around the world, with some original productions.

Challenge

Challenge may refer to:

  • Voter challenging or Caging (voter suppression), a method of challenging the registration status of voters
  • Euphemism for disability
  • Peremptory challenge, a dismissal of potential jurors for jury duty
  • challenge (rhetoric) - a dare or a motivational impetus to action
Challenge (Scrabble)

In the game of Scrabble, a challenge is the act of one player questioning the validity of one or more words formed by another player in the most recent turn. If one or more of the challenged words is not in the previously agreed-upon dictionary, the challenged player loses his turn. If the challenged words are acceptable, the challenger loses his turn. If the challenged player has no tiles left the game is over.

In tournament play, a player challenges by neutralizing the game clock and announcing, "Challenge." Both players must refer to word judge software, or request an adjudicator if one is unable to do so. Depending on the rules in force, there may be different consequences for a challenge. There are three current variations: single challenge, double challenge and penalty challenge.

Challenge (1984 film)

Challenge is a 1984 Telugu Philosophy film, produced by K. S. Rama Rao on Creative Commercials banner and directed by A. Kodandarami Reddy. Starring Chiranjeevi, Vijayashanti, Suhasini in the lead roles and music composed by Maestro Ilayaraja. This film is based on fiction work by Yandamoori Veerendranath titled "Dabbu to the power of Dabbu". The film recorded as Blockbuster at the box office.

Challenge (game magazine)

Challenge was a role-playing game magazine published by Game Designers' Workshop between 1986 and 1996. Announced in Journal of the Travellers Aid Society No. 22, the new (at the time unnamed) magazine was going to expand JTAS to a larger format (8.5"×11") and add coverage of GDW's new game Twilight 2000 and other games. The larger size would allow printing of things such as deck plans or sector maps which would not fit in the smaller JTAS format.

In order to maintain continuity for the Traveller fans (and JTAS subscribers) the first issue was numbered 25, rather than starting again with issue 1. Also to maintain continuity, Challenge featured a separate section labeled "Journal of the Travellers' Aid", which lasted through issue 28. Traveller articles continued to appear in Challenge, but issues were frequently dominated by articles of other gaming systems, including Twilight 2000, 2300 AD, Space 1889, and starting with the expansion to 64 pages in issue 30, games not published by GDW.

Fifty-three issues of Challenge were published (through number 77), until 1996 when the closing of GDW forced the end of publication.

Challenge (gasoline)

Challenge is a New Zealand petrol brand of Chevron New Zealand (known as Caltex New Zealand until 2006). Challenge stations are often found in small New Zealand towns, both in the North and South Islands. The petrol stations usually stock petrol and diesel and have amenities and a small convenience store.

Challenge was purchased by Caltex New Zealand from Rubicon in 2001. Rubicon, including the Challenge business, had been formed by the split of Fletcher Challenge earlier that year. Challenge was originally formed by Fletcher Challenge and commenced retailing in April 1998.

Challenge (cycle and car)

Challenge started to make cycles in Foleshill, Coventry, England in 1903, and they also made a Challenge light car from about 1912 to 1915. They moved into new premises on Fosehill Road, Coventry in about 1906 to 1907, which consisted of an impressive symmetrical red-brick office building with sheds behind. The Edwardian office building is still standing today.

Challenge (economics magazine)

Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs is a bimonthly magazine covering current affairs in economics. It is published by Routledge and the editor-in-chief is Jeff Madrick ( The Cooper Union).

Challenge (2009 film)

Challenge is a 2009 Bengali romantic comedy directed by Raj Chakraborty. The film starres Dev and Subhashree Ganguly.The film is a remake of the 2003 Telugu film Dil For few scenes and music-videos, shooting was done in Dubai, Australia and New Zealand.

Challenge (album)

Challenge! is the debut album by Japanese rock band Flower Travellin' Band, then called Yuya Uchida & The Flowers, released in 1969. It features mainly cover songs, and was a means for Yuya Uchida to explore the emerging psychedelic rock movement outside his own career, and to introduce the work of upcoming Western bands such as Cream, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane to a Japanese audience.

Challenge (1933)
''This article is about the American socialist newspaper started in 1933. For all other uses, see Challenge (disambiguation).

Challenge was a tabloid-sized monthly newspaper established in Chicago in April 1933 which served as the official organ of the Young People's Socialist League, youth section of the Socialist Party of America. The publication was subsequently renamed The Challenge of Youth and continued in existence through 1946.

Challenge (novel)

Challenge was the tenth and final Bulldog Drummond novel written by H. C. McNeile. It was published in 1935 under McNeile's pen name Sapper.  

Challenge (literature)

The American Library Association (ALA) defines a challenge to literature as an attempt by a person or group of people to have literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum. Merely objecting to material is not a challenge without the attempt to remove or restrict access to those materials. The ALA defines a challenge thus:

A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials. Challenges do not simply involve a person expressing a point of view; rather, they are an attempt to remove material from the curriculum or library, thereby restricting the access of others.

__NOTOC__ According to the ALA, a successful challenge would result in removal of those materials, a form of censorship. However, the ALA agrees that materials may be removed from libraries in appropriate circumstances and Island Trees School District v. Pico suggested that books that are pervasively vulgar may be removed legally.

Challenges in the U.S. and Canada—tracked by the Canadian Library Association's Advisory Committee on Intellectual Freedom, and the Book and Periodical Council's Freedom of Expression Committee—are often brought by parents wishing to prevent their children from having access to content that they deem to be inappropriate or offensive. The ALA suggests that, while parents and guardians should have the right to determine their children's access to library resources, that right applies only to their children and no library policy, such as restrictive scheduling or usage policies, should deny children access to library resources.

The differences between challenging a book and banning were discussed by a columnist for American Decency who raised concerns that "efforts by parents to become involved in their children's education by raising questions concerning age-appropriate material" was being referred to as banning. Similarly, former ALA Councilor Jessamyn West said, "The bulk of these books are challenged by parents for being age-inappropriate for children. While I think this is still a formidable thing for librarians to deal with, it's totally different from people trying to block a book from being sold at all."

The ALA believes that it is important to monitor challenges made to books as well as actual bannings since a challenge may lead to self-censorship by those seeking to avoid controversy.

Challenge (Communist journal)

Challenge is the name of organisational publications of two separate known communist groups.

The first is a magazine periodical produced by the Young Communist League, the youth wing of the Communist Party of Great Britain. The first issue came out in March 1935. The aim of the journal is, according to the YCL, to cover

all the latest news and views of the YCL, as well as articles covering important international developments, working-class history, culture, different campaigns and struggles taking place in Britain and the rest of the world, as well as regular features such as the Back 2 Basics series (Marxist concepts made easy), the Industrial Diary, and Uncle Joe's Book at Bedtime (a review of some classic Marxist texts).

Challenge continues as the journal of the Communist Party of Britain, which split from the CPGB in 1988.

The other "Challenge" is the bi-weekly newspaper of the Progressive Labor Party, a transnational communist party based primarily in the United States (but also having several smaller branches in various places in Latin and South America, and laying claim to several very small cells in other select places around the world). Due to its rather large Spanish language readership, the PLP also produces parallel issues in Spanish (Desafio).

Neither publication is to be confused with the historical Challenge which was, in its day, a primary publication of the Young People's Socialist League back when it was associated with the Socialist Party of America (YPSL is now politically and organisationally separate from the SPA).

Challenge (rhetoric)

A challenge can serve as a dare or an exhortation, motivating a person or persons by "[a]n invitation or summons to a trial or contest of any kind" and thus to "a difficult or demanding task, esp[ecially] one seen as a test of one's abilities or character". In this sense, speakers or writers can use challenges to motivate - to convince people "to perform an action they otherwise [might] not". A challenge can thus become a tool of rhetoric: a rhetorical challenge.

Challenge (competition)

A challenge is a request made to the holder of a competitive title for a match between champion and challenger, the winner of which will acquire or retain the title. In some cases the champion has the right to refuse a challenge; in others, this results in forfeiting the title. The challenge system derives from duelling and its code of honour. While many competitive sports use some form of tournament to determine champions, a challenge match is the normal way of deciding professional boxing titles and the World Chess Championship. Some racket sports clubs have a reigning champion who may be challenged by any other club member; a ladder tournament extends the challenge concept to all players, not just the reigning champion. At élite-level competition, there is usually some governing body which authorises and regulates challenges, such as FIDE in chess. In some cases there is a challengers' tournament, the winner of which gains the right to play the challenge round against the reigning champion; in tennis this was the case at Wimbledon until 1922 and in the Davis Cup until 1972. The FA Cup's official name remains the "Football Association Challenge Cup", although not since its second season in 1873 has the reigning champion receive a bye to the final. The America's Cup is contested according to the terms of its 1887 deed of gift between yachts representing the champion yacht club and a challenging club. Since 1970, the usual practice, by mutual consent, is for an initial formal "challenger of record" replaced by the actual challenger after a qualifying tournament. However, in 1988 and 2010 there were court cases arising from non-consensual challenges.

When the champion dies or otherwise vacates the title, a tournament among leading contenders may be used to crown a new champion prior to the resumption of challenges.

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Usage examples of "challenge".

From the starboard bow Captain Abernethy shrilled a cry of warning, and the heavy, bellowing voice of Loge shouted an answer of challenge and ferocity.

Although Delaura had sought the support of distinguished members of his own order and even of other communities, none had dared challenge the acta of the convent or contradict popular credulity.

The prospect of Adams succeeding Washington had been ever-present for seven years, but now, separated again by hundreds of miles, they addressed themselves to the growing likelihood of his actually becoming President, exchanged thoughts and feelings on the challenge in a way that apparently they never had before, and that perhaps they would have found impossible except at a distance.

Then came the challenging letters from Henry Akeley which impressed me so profoundly, and which took me for the first and last time to that fascinating realm of crowded green precipices and muttering forest streams.

It was crucial that they file the paperwork in Albany and that Nathaniel pay the taxes as her husband, so that there could be no challenge to the validity of the deed of gift, or her status as a married woman.

Idosso would preen himself as one whom even mighty Amra dared not challenge.

The challenge was taking her mind from her personal problem, and that was good.

Though the first edition of the present work was quite large, yet no challenge of the accuracy of any of its statements concerning experimentation upon human beings or animals has yet appeared.

Lady Appleton had been heard to mutter that there were no challenges left at Leigh Abbey.

Even as tired as she was after the long journey, Susanna was ready to face the challenge of turning Appleton into a second home.

The work was less backbreaking and more challenging, if not physically, then cerebrally.

His feet were flipping and he yipped as if challenging some wolf badman in his dreams.

He liked the challenge of baggataway, the way it pushed him to his limits.

He ducked through them and worked his way up to the beakhead bulkhead, conscious just as he reached it that a French voice was shouting a challenge.

The challenge lies in making lasting behavioral changes that reduce input and increase output.