What is "challenges"

Usage examples of "challenges".

We both laughed at the stupidity of Paterno, who did not seem to know how such challenges generally end.

By then he appears to have become convinced that his army was melting away and the coalition ground offensive could destroy it altogether--a catastrophe that would almost certainly produce challenges to his rule, perhaps even a full-scale revolution--and he calculated that if the army and Republican Guard were destroyed, he might not have the strength to defend himself.

Saddam has a history of shooting the messenger and seeing dissenting views as challenges to his authority--challenges usually met with dismissal or summary execution.

Even if I fail one of the challenges and they try to have me killed, I could still have the manuscript published.

Vince finishes his challenges at dawn, which I suppose will be around 7:45 a.

Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.

He challenges the faith-healers to provide serious medical evidence for the validity of their claims.

In those cultures lacking unfamiliar challenges, external or internal, where fundamental change is unneeded, novel ideas need not be encouraged.

The prospect of a secession in Kheldour, not to mention possible war against a Festillic invader, had brought home the very real military challenges he might have to face, in addition to the more insidious threats he had already anticipated from the former regents.

They were made from stretchable, waterproof material designed to withstand floods, pouring rain, and other such soggy challenges that nature might decide to throw their way.

This referred to five or six challenges I had received, and to which I had not even taken the trouble to reply.