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单词 challenge
释义
challenge
(ælɪndʒ )
Word forms: challenges , challenging , challenged
1. variable noun B1
A challenge is something new and difficult which requires great effort and determination.
I like a big challenge and they don't come much bigger than this.
The new government's first challenge is the economy.
Synonyms: dare, provocation, summons to contest, wero [New Zealand]  
2. to rise to the challenge phrase
If someone rises to the challenge, they act in response to a difficult situation which is new to them and are successful.
Such projects illustrate the company's ability to rise to the challenge of an evolving marketplace. [+ of]
They rose to the challenge of entertaining 80 schoolchildren for an afternoon.
3. variable noun
A challenge to something is a questioning of its truth or value. A challenge to someone is a questioning of their authority.
The demonstrators have now made a direct challenge to the authority of the government. [+ to]
4. verb B2
If you challenge ideas or people, you question their truth, value, or authority.
I challenged him on the hypocrisy of his political attitudes. [V n + on/about]
The move was immediately challenged by two of the republics. [be VERB-ed]
Synonyms: dispute, question, tackle, confront  
5. verb B2
If you challenge someone, you invite them to fight or compete with you in some way.
A mum challenged her to a fight after their daughters fell out. [VERB noun + to]
He left a note at the scene of the crime, challenging detectives to catch him. [VERB noun to-infinitive]
We challenged a team who called themselves 'College Athletes'. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: dare, invite, provoke, defy  
Challenge is also a noun.
A third presidential candidate emerged to mount a serious challenge.
6. verb
If someone is challenged by a guard, they are ordered to stop and say who they are or why they are there.
The men apparently opened fire after they were challenged by a patrol. [be VERB-ed]
Synonyms: question, interrogate, accost  
7.  See also challenged, challenging
Collocations:
accept a challenge
We should always accept a challenge.
The Sun (2011)
Dare I accept that challenge?
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The great thing about us is we accept challenges - it doesn't matter where they come from.
The Sun (2011)
address a challenge
Most organisations are striving hard to address these challenges.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Yet only now is he fully addressing the challenge of entering the family business.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
China's environmental history teaches that seemingly new efforts to address environmental challenges are not so new after all.
Christianity Today (2000)
aerial challenge
He appeared to damage his left ankle after landing awkwardly after an innocuous aerial challenge in the 19th minute.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Sunderland's players initially reacted furiously to the aerial challenge and protested to the referee.
The Sun (2014)
He was knocked unconscious in an aerial challenge and went off on a stretcher with his neck in a brace.
The Sun (2015)
big challenge
Just trying to find a good nursery for my son Zachary has been a big enough challenge.
The Sun (2011)
It was one of the biggest challenges of my career.
The Sun (2010)
The biggest challenge will be high youth unemployment.
The Sun (2012)
challenge a claim
He said he plans to meet auditors to challenge the claims.
Times, Sunday Times
It warns that claims management companies could cost motorists more if the claimant was later found to be at fault, or the third party insurer successfully challenged a claim.
Times,Sunday Times
Nobody's challenged the claim ... so far.
Houston Chronicle
Some scholars challenge the claims for much of the asserted evidence of sacrifice.
Times, Sunday Times
His critics challenged his claims during the campaign.
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challenge a finding
So the three accused have had no opportunity publicly to challenge that finding or clear their names.
Times, Sunday Times
The secretary of state had not sought to challenge that holding, but, in the present case, did challenge the finding that the curfew amounted to imprisonment at common law.
Times,Sunday Times
She allegedly made 'no attempt' to challenge their findings or complain at the time.
The Sun
Legal sources, however, said that that was unlikely to happen, because individuals were questioned by the regulators on the basis that they would be allowed to challenge the findings.
Times, Sunday Times
The school challenged the findings in court.
Times, Sunday Times
challenge a law
It threatened to challenge the law in international courts.
Times, Sunday Times
Failing that continuing to challenge the law.
Times, Sunday Times
Human-rights legislation could also be used to challenge the law.
Times, Sunday Times
Any citizen may challenge a law that has been passed by parliament.
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Those who wish to challenge a law can do so in one of several ways.
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challenge a notion
But it's also hard to resist the urge to challenge that notion.
The Sun
I wanted to challenge the notion that this place, its people and its troubled past could be reduced to a series of indisputable facts.
The Times Literary Supplement
My first instinct was to challenge that notion.
Christianity Today
How do you challenge the notion that some people can be allowed to squander their lives, unemployed for years, at public expense?
Times, Sunday Times
Like war memoirs, illness narratives challenge the notion of autobiography as the story of a continuous life.
The Times Literary Supplement
challenge a stereotype
But how can we even begin to challenge that stereotype unless we are truthful and open about our national identity?
Times, Sunday Times
Some people have no idea what goes on in a pastor's life, so we may need to challenge their stereotypes.
Christianity Today
It's time we challenged the stereotypes of what a garden should look like and do our bit for the local wildlife at the same time.
Times, Sunday Times
But what about challenging some stereotypes?
Times, Sunday Times
His work also challenged the stereotype that socially anxious individuals are inherently shy and inhibited, with evidence for an aggressive, impulsive, uninhibited subgroup of people with social anxiety difficulties.
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challenge a student
The national exam includes written tests during several weeks that challenge the student on the intensive studies of the previous two years.
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Ten years ago he challenged some students to a game of basketball.
Times, Sunday Times
Will's unorthodox pedagogy involves challenging his students to apply literature's philosophical quandaries to their own lives.
The Times Literary Supplement
The regulator ordered exam boards to take immediate action to improve the quality of questions to stretch and challenge all students.
Times, Sunday Times
His style of teaching was rigorous and traditional, and he challenged his students with tough examinations.
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challenge a view
We challenge this view of herpes, as more than 70 per cent of the adult population has one or both types of herpes simplex, mostly without symptoms.
Times, Sunday Times
We wanted to challenge that view.
Times, Sunday Times
Later in life, he was to challenge this view.
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Recent lawsuits have unsuccessfully attempted to challenge this view.
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Some scholars challenge this view.
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challenge the constitutionality of
It simply said that the plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge the constitutionality of the allowance.
Christianity Today
Activities range from legal actions that challenge the constitutionality of evictions, to mass mobilisation and popular education initiatives, to organisation and capacity building programs.
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The fund said it might challenge the constitutionality of the law.
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An applicant who complains about such actions will not be allowed to challenge the constitutionality of the enabling laws.
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Since anyone could challenge the constitutionality of a statute when they were charged with violating it, even without admitting the underlying conduct, the state's argument was without merit.
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challenge the dominance of
This could challenge the dominance of established providers that levy much higher charges and usually require customers to pay for a landline.
Times, Sunday Times
For some commentators that amounts to a call for a new world currency that would challenge the dominance of the dollar.
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The polarization became especially evident in the 1980s as a new generation of educated but religiously motivated local leaders emerged to challenge the dominance of the secularized political elite.
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It has never challenged the dominance of four-stroke combustion engines but has replaced many two-stroke engines with a more efficient, powerful and cleaner system.
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These challenged the dominance of the neorealist paradigms focus on states, mutually assured destruction and military security and briefly enabled a broader concept of security to emerge.
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challenge the establishment
Visionaries do nt always create conflict, but they challenge the establishment with new ideas and with the threat of change.
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Yet although her whole career can be read as a statement of defiance, challenging the establishment, she was no rebel in her behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
Not only must the inquiry be led by an individual with a record of challenging the establishment.
Times, Sunday Times
They also demanded the appointment of an inquiry leader who has 'demonstrable experience and ability in challenging the establishment'.
Times, Sunday Times
Her work challenged the establishment's cultural norms and defied convention, instead embracing pagan antiquity.
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challenge the legality of
A hearing is likely today at which he can challenge the legality of his detention.
The Sun (2008)
The citizen needs to be able to challenge the legality of the activities of public bodies.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
They were asked to go to a conference room until lawyers could arrive to challenge the legality.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
challenge the norm
He was fearless - not a big risk taker, but he wasn't afraid to challenge the norm.
The Sun
As chefs, we must always challenge the norm.
Times,Sunday Times
They can succeed because markets are essentially chaotic, which creates endless opportunities for interlopers to challenge the norm.
Times, Sunday Times
They make crucial judgments in often difficult corporate circumstances and are not afraid to challenge the norms of business or take risks.
Times, Sunday Times
Since modernity excluded the marginal by upholding its own norms and truths-often under the guise of a universal rationality-postmodernity now challenges all norms and truths.
Christianity Today
challenge the orthodoxy
Surely only the most jaded and damaged would challenge the orthodoxy of romantic love.
Times, Sunday Times
Not surprisingly, young people found numerous ways to challenge this orthodoxy.
Globe and Mail
Here, he's out to challenge the orthodoxies of scepticism as well as jingoism.
Times, Sunday Times
As the voiceover puts it, 'playfulness has been central to the way he's challenged the orthodoxy'.
Times, Sunday Times
This book challenges that orthodoxy.
Times, Sunday Times
challenge the reader
The pages have a small amount of text, which often challenge the reader to find something on the page.
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He had a sense of moral purpose, and challenged his readers' assumptions about the way the world worked.
Times, Sunday Times
In addition to challenging his readers, he seeks to encourage them with stories of repentance, sacrifice, and courage.
Christianity Today
Aim to charm and challenge your readers.
Times, Sunday Times
They use the pen and paper not only to capture the pathos of their subjects but also to challenge their readers' responses.
The Times Literary Supplement
challenge the status quo
It allows him to challenge the status quo and claim his place among fashion's influential players.
Times, Sunday Times
The ability to do the job and the confidence to challenge the status quo.
Times, Sunday Times
This invests in companies that challenge the status quo, providing solutions to sustainability issues such as resource scarcity, the ageing and growing population, and globalisation.
Times, Sunday Times
Innovators have to challenge the status quo, so don't be discouraged if you don't find instant support.
Times, Sunday Times
We actually are going to challenge the status quo and do things differently and finally solve this problem.
Christianity Today
challenge the validity of
It has been criticised by environmentalists for funding groups that challenge the validity of global warming research.
Times, Sunday Times
Recognizing no authority beyond the power of his arguments, he presented his reasoning in the most transparent manner, as if daring his opponents to challenge the validity of his inferences.
The Times Literary Supplement
It provided for judicial review and the legal right of a recipient to challenge the validity of the letter.
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A debtor may also challenge the validity of the debt in a claim against the bank to stop the foreclosure and sue for damages.
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An accused infringer has the right to challenge the validity of the patent allegedly being infringed in a countersuit.
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challlenge a myth
Each has an appropriate look, challenging the myth that you can judge a book by its cover.
Times, Sunday Times
Their success challenged the myth that the same people were simply visiting more often because half of all visits were by new visitors, she added.
Times, Sunday Times
This scientifically challenges the myth of the effect of appendectomy on fertility.
Times, Sunday Times
complex challenge
I love that role already: such a complex challenge!
Times, Sunday Times
He was skilled in the complex challenge of embedding government strategy into local authority planning offices.
Times, Sunday Times
Shell said that climate change was a 'complex challenge' that should not be addressed through the courts.
Times, Sunday Times
Constructing the 30-passenger lounge on the ship's lowest deck was a complex challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
He can choose between prizes he can take immediately or those that require more complex challenge than collecting.
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confront a challenge
How can business confront the challenges of tomorrow?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He confronts challenges head-on.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
But our report suggests that they're not yet confronting the real challenges.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
considerable challenge
For slide players, these guitars offer endless possibilities as well as a considerable challenge.
The Times Literary Supplement
The document describes this move as presenting a 'considerable challenge'.
Times, Sunday Times
Given what has happened in the global economy and to world politics since then, his successor faces a considerable challenge.
Times,Sunday Times
It involved the considerable challenge of trying to include as many lorry-related references as possible.
Times, Sunday Times
This was a considerable challenge.
Smithsonian
constant challenge
It's a constant challenge.
Christianity Today (2000)
They have a constant challenge to remain relevant.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
I am one of those annoying people whose constant challenge is actually keeping weight on.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
constitutional challenge
The court may still consider a constitutional challenge of the practice.
Houston Chronicle
Other provinces need to do likewise, and governments will need to vigorously defend the legislation from constitutional challenge.
Globe and Mail
This opens the way to a referendum in 2014, immune to constitutional challenge, ends the phoney war of procedure and allows the debate about substance to begin.
Times, Sunday Times
The draft law was subject to a constitutional challenge.
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However, the district expressly describes its constitutional challenge to 5 as being in the alternative to its statutory argument.
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court challenge
A court challenge was mounted after one city election.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The Home Office said that it could not comment on the case while the court challenge was continuing.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
A court challenge was launched yesterday claiming police operations at the Royal Wedding were illegal.
The Sun (2011)
daunting challenge
It was a thrill but it was also a daunting challenge.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Yet for a new chairman it was a daunting challenge.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Reducing smoking is a daunting challenge.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
deal with a challenge
We also deal with the challenge of oral communication.
Christianity Today
You lack the confidence to deal with a challenge.
The Sun
The funds have also had to deal with the challenge of significant outflows at a time when the manager has been reducing his exposure to less liquid holdings.
Times,Sunday Times
It puts us in the strongest position to deal with the challenge that now confronts us.
Times, Sunday Times
Despite the constant touring, she finds time to deal with the challenge of fundraising and fielding inquiries from potential patients.
Times, Sunday Times
different challenge
This week he faces a different challenge.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
These games are difficult, with different challenges and things we're not used to.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
There is no knowing what different footwear challenges you're likely to face.
The Sun (2010)
difficult challenge
It is the most difficult challenge of my life.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The most difficult challenge of international football is about handling the increased pressure and expectation.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
I think it's important to recognise the extremely difficult challenges that parents of autistic children have to go through.
The Sun (2012)
direct challenge
In a direct challenge yesterday he demanded a referendum no matter what.
The Sun
He offers a direct challenge to opposing defences.
Times, Sunday Times
He has never been better than when responding to a direct challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
There was no impenetrable theological abstraction, but a direct challenge to tyranny and words of hope for the oppressed.
Times, Sunday Times
They presented it as a direct challenge to representative democracy.
Times, Sunday Times
embrace a challenge
We told the players to embrace the challenge.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The band have embraced the challenges facing the music industry and harnessed the power of the internet.
The Sun (2008)
Embrace challenges and recognise that they present the best opportunities.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
emotional challenge
They choose texts for their 'relevance' and 'accessibility', not for their intellectual and emotional challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
All the science in the world, and still the game was an emotional challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
And quite apart from the emotional challenge single parenthood presented, he says he had to adapt to the daily practical challenges, too.
Times, Sunday Times
This was the emotional challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
According to them, adventure therapy uses outdoor activities involving risk and physical and emotional challenge.
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encounter a challenge
Even as our hope and expectations rose, we began to encounter challenges.
Christianity Today
When you understand the different phases of vision, then you're able to respond with wisdom and maturity when you encounter challenges.
Christianity Today
Encountering challenges that lead to success, students develop a positive sense of self.
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As aircraft speed increased, designers began to encounter challenges associated with air compressibility at speeds near or greater than the speed of sound.
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Over the following years, he had trouble with injuries and encountered challenges in finding sponsors, in addition to losing his father in 2009.
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engineering challenge
It's made setting up the car a big engineering challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
They represent a mammoth technical and engineering challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
But one engineering challenge has yet to be resolved, and could wind up sinking the whole effort: stopping occupants from feeling seasick.
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He resolved to change and started investigating happiness, looking at it as an engineering challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
The 24th installment of the engineering challenge promises once again to be an exciting and fun event for everyone involved.
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enjoy a challenge
I'm really enjoying the challenge.
The Sun (2006)
Hackers were once likely to be students enjoying a challenge.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
He has an inquisitive mind and I knew he would enjoy the challenge.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
enormous challenge
It is going to be an enormous challenge, but I think it is one we will be ready for.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
At the bank she was faced with an enormous challenge: the introduction of new audit processes.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
This was not, on the face of it, an enormous challenge.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
environmental challenge
F1 can no longer exist in a bubble and it has to acknowledge and address the environmental challenge it faces.
Times, Sunday Times
The power generators are not alone in identifying climate change as the single biggest environmental challenge facing business.
Times, Sunday Times
This would also increase resistance of the bacterial cell membranes to environmental challenge.
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Students consider alternative solutions to a given environmental challenge from all aspects including technical, legal, health, socioeconomic and community related issues.
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There will be some progress, but nothing like enough, in addressing environmental challenges.
Times,Sunday Times
exciting challenge
I am ready for this new and exciting challenge.
The Sun (2016)
Your self-belief is growing and you are ready to take on an exciting challenge.
The Sun (2008)
You have a choice between a future of exciting challenges or a settled life.
The Sun (2010)
face a challenge
But he will need more than a magnetic personality as he faces the toughest challenges of any peacetime President.
The Sun (2009)
I realise now that so many people face these challenges with no support.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Together we faced a massive challenge - learning how to walk.
The Sun (2006)
formidable challenge
They face formidable challenges.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The concert he's talking about is a formidable challenge for a man who's been learning the piano for less than two years.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
This is a formidable challenge for historians, because the technical difficulties of studying past migrations are imposing.
Migrants in Modern France: Population Mobility in the Later Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1989)
fresh challenge
It could be time for a fresh challenge.
The Sun (2006)
The new industrial age brought with it fresh challenges.
Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century (1989)
Seeking new motivation, he chose a fresh challenge.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
fundamental challenge
As football faces up to the fundamental challenge of technology's relationship with refereeing, the good of the game demands his removal.
Times, Sunday Times
The fundamental challenge of driving the cars hasn't changed; it's the same set of requirements, broadly speaking, and lap times are similar.
Times, Sunday Times
Steps to improve procurement and to encourage public sector workers to set up social enterprises are laudable, but they do not begin to address the more fundamental challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
So the fundamental challenge was to solve the poorwhite problem: that would build self-respect and character.
The Times Literary Supplement
The set piece remains their fundamental challenge, of course, but the very best are expected to be all-court players, comfortable in the open spaces, carrying the ball and making passes.
Times, Sunday Times
future challenge
But public spending cuts, likely whatever the result of the election, will mean future challenges.
Times, Sunday Times
And having already broken more than 100 world records in sailing, ballooning and aviation, he would have known his options for future challenges were narrowing.
Times, Sunday Times
Its conclusion will be a useful precedent for future challenges in other states.
Christianity Today
Without an injection of new blood, including universities overseas, higher education will be illprepared to meet future challenges and opportunities.
Times, Sunday Times
Winning over previous failures, over future challenges, over whatever status quo sludge that threatens growth and newness.
Christianity Today
global challenge
In addition, our understanding of plant disease resistance will aid agricultural control of pathogens and pests, mitigating the global challenge of crop loss.
Smithsonian Mag
In these days of global challenge, this makes his stature difficult to assess.
Times, Sunday Times
But there remained a global challenge in sourcing the chemicals needed for kits, he said.
The Sun
I encourage everyone to play their part in this global challenge, and we can all help to preserve antibiotics by following a few simple steps.
Times, Sunday Times
One has even taken part in a tough global challenge and gained specialist qualifications.
Times, Sunday Times
gruelling challenge
The climbers still face a gruelling challenge reaching the summit of Everest.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
But he said the four-month dance show regime was the most gruelling challenge of his life.
The Sun (2012)
Each faces five gruelling challenges designed to test their mental and physical abilities to the maximum.
The Sun (2009)
highlight the challenge
It highlights the huge challenge for a manager looking to build a long-term, viable career.
The Sun (2015)
The force is trying to highlight the challenges it faces while trying to answer genuine emergency calls.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
But we have chosen instead to highlight the challenges still faced by those who wish to climb on to the ladder.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
huge challenge
Getting aid and assistance to remote areas is a huge challenge.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
That is a huge challenge for councils being asked to find foster placements... and also to carry out family checks, very quickly.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Yet to do something of this scale and prominence was a huge challenge.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
immediate challenge
But he has taken on the serious questions and identified the issues that lie behind the immediate challenge of a lack of growth.
Times, Sunday Times
The decision was widely seen as an attempt to avoid an immediate challenge, amid growing internal criticism about the party's performance in the election.
Times, Sunday Times
The new government has the immediate challenge of restoring basic order and services.
Times, Sunday Times
First there has been the immediate challenge of writing to the moment, dealing with the events of today in real time.
The Times Literary Supplement
The immediate challenge was to avoid crashing into other swimmers as we struck out from the slipway.
Times, Sunday Times
immense challenge
It was an immense challenge, and she was already in pain from her illness.
Times, Sunday Times
However, when we return to something like normality, we should seek to learn from how other countries dealt with this immense challenge.
Times,Sunday Times
They produce large amounts of carbon dioxide and face an immense challenge in that they must act to stop climate change while at the same time delivering reasonably priced energy.
Times, Sunday Times
Yet even if a third runway gets the go-ahead, building it will be an immense challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
Hackers pose an immense challenge to western criminal justice systems.
Times, Sunday Times
intellectual challenge
The intellectual challenge of working out what happened is exciting.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Maybe it's the intellectual challenge of maths that appeals to her.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
And gifted children are hungry for intellectual challenges and need to have their interests fed.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
issue a challenge
He then issued a challenge.
The Sun (2011)
Should I issue the challenge right now?
Christianity Today (2000)
Instead of reading it out, I decided to issue a challenge.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
launch a challenge
Here he explains why he has launched this challenge.
The Sun (2010)
Other prisoners have already launched legal challenges.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
A string of airports hope to use the ruling to launch fresh challenges against plans for mass growth in flights and passenger numbers.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
leadership challenge
But he rubbished talk of a leadership challenge - and made clear he would not stand for the top job.
The Sun
Any leadership challenge could mean the break-up of the coalition.
Times, Sunday Times
There will be rumours of a leadership challenge and at least some of them will emanate from the leader's office.
Times, Sunday Times
They need to cease distracting themselves with unfocused thoughts of some unspecified future leadership challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
That could hasten moves against him that would make a leadership challenge almost certain.
The Sun
legal challenge
The court would be the final arbiter of any legal challenge to the election result on grounds of fraud.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The Government faces a legal challenge over the proposed closure of public libraries.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The agency fears a legal challenge under data protection laws if it does not remove the information.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The company has opted instead for a legal challenge that looks futile and self-defeating.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
A legal challenge is an enormously expensive and time-consuming exercise that they may decide would be a waste of management time.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
like a challenge
He likes a challenge.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
I like the challenge of finding things without turning the lights on.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
People with this need tend to like challenges and to be curious.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
logistical challenge
The withdrawal has been described as the biggest logistical challenge for the military since the second world war.
Times, Sunday Times
Apart from the logistical challenge, the cost of storage and transportation would be an obstacle.
Times,Sunday Times
Drive-through vaccination centres are also being planned, with the army being brought in to help with the logistical challenge of delivering millions of doses.
Times,Sunday Times
It would be a logistical challenge spanning several time zones.
Times, Sunday Times
Unlike the tricky business of in-flight catering, airport restaurants present no major logistical challenge that can't be overcome.
Times, Sunday Times
main challenge
The main challenges are yet to come.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
One of the main challenges is to change how the industry is perceived by young people.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Remembering who's who is the main challenge, of course.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
major challenge
The couple have found that coping with technology has been a major challenge.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Not surprisingly, the crews faced major challenges during filming.
The Sun (2006)
We are making progress but it is a major logistical challenge.
The Sun (2015)
massive challenge
This will be a massive challenge for us.
The Sun (2007)
It's always a massive challenge and a great opportunity playing for England.
The Sun (2007)
Although the country is facing massive challenges, this is the most optimistic stage of his journey so far.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
meet a challenge
I'm doing my best to meet those challenges.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
No one person, or religion, or nation can meet these challenges alone.
Christianity Today (2000)
We need a highly skilled workforce to meet the challenges of a busier network, improving performance and increasing capacity.
The Sun (2013)
mount a challenge
Candidates and voters who are unhappy with a result have 21 days to mount a challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
It doesn't look likely that they will win it this year either - though they did mount a challenge for a change.
The Sun
The candidate knows the names of the examiners in advance and can usually mount a challenge, as can occur with juries.
Times, Sunday Times
He, too, will no doubt throw away all caution and attempt to mount a challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
That was not born out of a sense that they would roll over, just that they are ill-equipped to mount a challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
new challenge
She wanted a new challenge.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
This has, in turn, led to new challenges.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Teens will face new challenges and learn invaluable skills including teamwork, leadership and planning.
The Sun (2015)
ongoing challenge
I'm committed to storytelling in preaching, but it's an ongoing challenge to find quality stories and illustrations.
Christianity Today
It added that preventing users from disclosing personal information was an 'ongoing challenge'.
Times, Sunday Times
For a preacher, such a joy far surpasses the ongoing challenge.
Christianity Today
The project was not going well and continued to be an ongoing challenge.
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Prevention has been an ongoing challenge because early signs of the disorder are similar to those of other disorders.
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overcome a challenge
You can overcome almost any challenge as long as you understand it.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Both men have brilliantly overcome the challenges placed before them.
The Sun (2014)
But United were quick to rise to and overcome the challenge.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
physical challenge
It's just they love the physical challenge of the game.
The Sun
They were then given a small physical challenge: jumping five times, as high as they could, without bending their knees.
Christianity Today
He turns back effortfully, as if facing an extreme physical challenge so as not to rush off and fix things.
Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps, but in setting themselves a physical challenge, they failed.
Times, Sunday Times
Some are practical, such as learning first aid, managing your money or accomplishing a physical challenge.
Times,Sunday Times
present a challenge
And they know what it takes to present a challenge that only the complete player at his best can deal with.
Times, Sunday Times
A lack of security staff could present a challenge for a store with an upmarket jewellery department as well as thousands of other expensive items.
Times,Sunday Times
But also make the point that all new experiences present a challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
However, paying for these projects may present a challenge because emerging markets lack the mature debt and equity capital markets.
Times, Sunday Times
Files that are actively being updated can be thought of as live and present a challenge to back up.
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pressing challenge
An even more pressing challenge was soon to face her.
Times, Sunday Times
Considering that half the world’s population live in cities—a number expected to jump to 70 percent by the year 2050—efficient vertical transportation has become a pressing challenge.
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Pollution from these landscapes has been almost universally acknowledged as the most pressing challenge to the restoration of waterbodies and aquatic ecosystems nationwide.
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Liars were not averse to this attention, but the problem of being pigeon-holed became a pressing challenge for the band to overcome.
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The annual brainstorming event brings together 700 of the world's leading thinkers from academia, business, government and society to find solutions to the most pressing challenges.
Times, Sunday Times
primary challenge
The primary challenge of the wooden round requirement was to design the engine to be as reliable as possible.
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His primary challenge will be taking a government with a large indebtness and high deficit.
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In that respect, the primary challenge of the modern age consisted in finding a method to keep the human touch attached to the products.
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He endured a tough primary challenge during his first campaign, before winning the general election by an 8-point margin.
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He lost a primary challenge in 2004, and lost another primary in 2006.
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promotion challenge
And it comes at a time the club are struggling to mount a Championship promotion challenge after one win in nine league matches.
The Sun (2015)
The defender, 22, should go straight into the side as they look to get their promotion challenge back on track after last week's 2-1 home defeat by Northampton.
The Sun (2006)
'This club would be quite capable of mounting a promotion challenge and I would want to lead it.
The Sun (2009)
prove a challenge
Keeping an eye on the kids proved a challenge.
The Sun (2008)
The making of a cup of tea proves a technical challenge in the ship's tiny wooden kitchen.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
These are easy to manage for able-bodied people but could prove a challenge for some older holidaymakers or those who have difficulty walking.
The Sun (2013)
real challenge
It's going to be a real challenge, but we're excited to be going to Twickenham.
The Sun (2015)
At the moment it is a real challenge to go out there and consider more things than I used to.
The Sun (2010)
It will be a real challenge for central Government and for the parties locally.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
relish the challenge
They all seem to be relishing the challenge.
The Sun (2008)
He said:'I relish the challenge of trying to take the club where it wants to go and needs to be.
The Sun (2016)
For us as a group of coaches, we are relishing the challenge of preparing it.
The Sun (2016)
They always recover and seem to relish the challenge.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
represent a challenge
These altered attitudes represent a huge challenge to retailers.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The Grand National represents a challenge to both horse and rider.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Better aid means a recognition that the refugees represent a long-term challenge, not a short-term annoyance.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
serious challenge
Suddenly what should have been easy became a serious challenge.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
But many of those seeking to follow in her footsteps face serious challenges.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He added: 'Our optimism is necessarily tempered by the serious challenges ahead'.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
significant challenge
The country is facing significant environmental challenges.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Smoking remains one of our most significant public health challenges.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
This was not just a significant challenge but also a decidedly risky career change.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
solve a challenge
You can use some to help you solve this challenge.
Times,Sunday Times
Having already solved the challenges of communication as deaf people, the couple are now confronted by a barrage of unwelcome noise.
Times, Sunday Times
Because despite the recent focus on the potential costs to society of climate change, solving this challenge may also present the greatest economic opportunity of our time.
Times, Sunday Times
The player has to solve the challenges to be allowed to read the message.
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She uses her imagination and artistic temperament to help solve their challenges.
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stiff challenge
Many of the newcomers are top-performing funds that will provide a stiff challenge for their onshore rivals.
Times, Sunday Times
He has faced a stiff challenge.
The Times Literary Supplement
And a stiff challenge too.
The Sun
It has to be left down for three days and then presents a stiff challenge to even the most powerful vacuum cleaner.
The Times Literary Supplement
The players who did not quite make it this time will be even more determined to join a team that will face a very stiff challenge away from home.
Times, Sunday Times
survive a challenge
Members of the congregation had sufficiently trusted the process to loan us the necessary power to survive the challenge.
Christianity Today
As broadcasting gave audiences the first facts of what had happened, newspapers appeared to survive the challenge but, under the surface of apparent continuity, changed entirely.
The Times Literary Supplement
For now, the bookshop shelves are dangerously bowed under the weight of a staggering 35,000 different travel books which won't all survive the challenge of the internet.
Times, Sunday Times
The institute warned that it might not survive a challenge by judicial review.
Times, Sunday Times
No president since has recognized the constitutionality of this act, and most legal scholars believe it would not survive a challenge in court.
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tackle a challenge
Nearby, three other teams tackle an identical challenge.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Tackling the productivity challenge is the key to moving Britain forward.
The Sun (2016)
If we are going to tackle the huge environmental challenges we face, we have to find new ways of using land.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
technical challenge
There are quite a lot of technical challenges to overcome.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Good art forgery is an imaginative feat, as well as a technical challenge.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
For bowlers, this Test will present physical and technical challenges.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
technological challenge
A bigger issue will be the technological challenge.
Times,Sunday Times
And the biggest issue: the technological challenge of corralling more than 50 participants from 20 clubs into one conference call, meant the audio was poor.
Times,Sunday Times
Increasing their longevity has not been the only technological challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
Construction of the bridge was recognized as a major technological challenge.
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At the time one of their first technological challenge was to make the background expose.
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throw down a challenge
A hotel firm is expanding and throwing down a challenge to larger chains offering budget accommodation.
The Sun (2014)
The online bank has thrown down a serious challenge to its high street competitors.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
He declared: 'I am throwing down a challenge to the players'.
The Sun (2009)
tough challenge
Work-wise, you can fly through a tough challenge.
The Sun
However, the target of reaching a $120 billion valuation may be a tough challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
The audience rarely sit down; and the cast face the tough challenge of holding their attention (and the tension) as they lead them along.
Times, Sunday Times
But it provides only 10 per cent of its profit and remains a tough challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
And though it's a tough challenge, you will, perhaps surprisingly, enjoy it.
The Sun
ultimate challenge
Test cricket has always attracted adjectival excess: the ultimate challenge, the test of character, the relentless examination.
Times, Sunday Times
It's striking a balance between being the ultimate challenge and staying contemporary.
Times, Sunday Times
The schedule had been cunningly engineered to encourage us towards the ultimate challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
That's the ultimate challenge facing contestants in this primetime spin-off of the quiz show, which airs every weeknight.
The Sun
I'd been working as a web editor for years and was used to removing sexist language from copy, and this seemed the ultimate challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
undertake a challenge
A tall, able and willing athlete might be found to undertake the challenge.
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Team members have always undertaken the challenge of this unique voluntary opportunity with spirit and enthusiasm.
Times, Sunday Times
Most people undertaking the challenge walk it, and many achieve it in much less than 24 hours.
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unique challenge
Triathlon brings unique challenges because you swim, then cycle, then run.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Each obstacle has its own unique challenge, meaning that the horse needs a mix of bravery and intelligence.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Leading as a pastor has its own unique challenges and difficulties.
Christianity Today (2000)
unprecedented challenge
In these extraordinary times, parliament must rise to an unprecedented challenge.
Times,Sunday Times
Conventional means of monetary management cannot address the unprecedented challenge of an exit from the euro.
Times, Sunday Times
Clubs are facing an unprecedented challenge.
Times,Sunday Times
Food prices are set to increase by between 70 and 90 per cent by 2030, creating an 'unprecedented challenge' to ensure people have enough to eat, the charity said.
Times, Sunday Times
The king's beloved pastime now faces an unprecedented challenge after hunt saboteurs succeeded for the first time in generating a nationwide debate over the practice.
Times, Sunday Times
urgent challenge
She saw that wooing them to conserv-atism was an even more urgent challenge for her party.
Times, Sunday Times
The university heads must provide the leadership and support to mobilize internal and external resources so that their institutions respond to this urgent challenge.
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Focusing on these urgent challenges would serve us much better than trying to extract forced apologies.
ST
They are tackling one of the most urgent challenges in the fight against malaria.
Times, Sunday Times
During this time many urgent challenges went unaddressed.
Times,Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 挑战, 挑战
Japanese: 挑戦, 挑戦する
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