I'm actually here to make a challenge to people.

Instead, the Russian people have now challenged the status quo.

Members of Toronto s Chinese business community had also challenged the ban.

Anyway, it was Aveling, and when they met, Darwin challenged Aveling, Why do you call yourselves atheists?

But his real offense is that he challenged the Chinese Communist Party s way of doing things.

The team pursued the Dutch Championship for most of the season, but eventually lost out to PSV.

And Ayatollah Khomeini challenged the Al Saud s ideological monopoly and control of Mecca and Medina.

Most countries agreed that Saddam had defied United Nations Security Council resolutions for a dozen years.

Then Robert Solow and Moses Abramovitz challenged this near consensus.

Khomeini challenged the very concept of monarchy in Islam by declaring that those with authority are not Kings but religious scholars.

World wars Great Britain's dominance of the world had been challenged by numerous other powers in the 20th century, most notably Germany.

Chen rose to prominence as a self educated legal activist after he challenged harsh enforcement of the government s family planning policies.

Recently, Chuvashov defied personal threats made against him and sentenced members of a particularly nasty Moscow neo Nazi group to prison.

In Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has defied the diplomatic efforts of the European Union and others, using the nuclear issue to stir rally domestic support.

The Egyptian protesters have been defying the night curfew on Sunday, as they continued demonstrating against the 30 year old rule of Muhammed Hosni Mubarak.

So about that time, the National Federation of the Blind, or NFB, challenged the research committee about who can develop a car that lets a blind person drive safely and independently.

The economic historian Douglas Irwin has challenged the argument that nineteenth century protectionist policy aided the growth of infant industries in the United States.

The loss of Africa meant that soon, Byzantine control of the Western Mediterranean was challenged by a new and expanding Arab fleet, operating from Tunisia.

Of course, whenever the Israelis defy the world over the settlements, as is now once again happening, US and other officials denounce and regret the decision.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned ex CEO of what was Russia s largest oil company, is another example of a flawed, uncompromising person who challenged the flawed people in power and their unaccountability.

The Turk won games against the likes of Napoleon and Benjamin Franklin, while challenging many great minds to penetrate its secrets.

You realize that this poses a fundamental challenge to any theory of the brain, and especially to a theory that says that there is some reality that emerges out of this carpet, out of this particular carpet with a particular pattern.

Dani Rodrik, a renowned Harvard University economist, is the latest to challenge the intellectual foundations of the Washington Consensus in a powerful new book titled One Economics, Many Recipes Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth .

In Iraq, Saddam Hussein s former subjects braved threats and voted for the first time with ballots that offered a choice of 70 political parties, rather than only one.

But Egypt s old line Muslim Brotherhood, with all of its factions, tendencies, and offshoots, no longer appears to be the country s dominant Islamist force, as Salafis challenge the Brotherhood s traditional hegemony.

Achebe challenged the 20th century philosophy of fiction as a pretty object d art, arriving with works which foregrounded the human condition and told the wondering world that the clotheless Emperor was, indeed, naked!

Addison further challenged Bright's student, Snow, when in 1839 Snow suggested from case studies and laboratory analysis that oedema was associated with an increase in albumin in the blood.

Such progress, which extends far beyond India, follows a decade of global activism that has challenged the logic of existing food systems like never before.

Indians braved the 3,000 meter heights to run a power transmission line from Pul e Khumri to Kabul giving round the clock electricity to the capital for the first time since 1982.

They challenged the disparities in legal treatment of women, broached new ideas concerning the role of women in Moroccan society, and questioned practices that had long been understood as Islamic.

But if the sheer force and range of Achebe s fiction gave Africa a voice, the fearless truth of his critical interventions challenged so many myths and deliberate falsehoods about the most misrepresented and recklessly abused continent in the world.

As world leaders in Paris were finalizing the text of the deal, thousands defied the ban on public protests implemented in France under the State of Emergency and gathered by the Arc de Triomphe on a climate demonstration.

The American economist Julian Simon allegedly issued a challenge in 1980 to a group of environmentalists, saying that if scarcity were to be measured in terms of higher prices, they should invest in stocks of any raw metal.

Great intellectuals like Abelard, Erasmus, Galileo, Voltaire, Zola, and Russell each challenged the pieties of his era, and we now regard their success as a good thing.

Lewis Pugh talks about his record breaking swim across the North Pole. He braved the icy waters to highlight the melting icecap. Watch for astonishing footage and some blunt commentary on the realities of supercold water swims.

In the US, the end recipients are less clear indeed, they are undisclosed. Charles Calomiris of Columbia University has challenged what he calls a real subversion of the fiscal process as funds are raised and spent in non transparent ways.

The third argument focused on preventing Saddam from possessing weapons of mass destruction. Most countries agreed that Saddam had defied United Nations Security Council resolutions for a dozen years.

Lula s day started before sunrise at the gates of an automobile plant in São Bernardo do Campo, part of Sao Paulo s industrial belt, where he rose to prominence as a union leader defying the military dictatorship 30 years ago.

CAMBRIDGE When Turkey s Justice and Development Party (AKP) defied pundits and pollsters by regaining a parliamentary majority in the country s general election on November 1, financial markets cheered. The next day, the Istanbul stock exchange rose by more than 5 , and the Turkish lira rallied.

I think generally, we were talking about this I think that generally being present in a virtual world and being challenged by it, being surviving there, having a good life there, so to speak, is a challenge because of the multiculturality of it, because of the languages, because of the entrepreneurial richness of it, the sort of flea market nature, if you will, of the virtual world today.