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While the combined entity will have a large global footprint, we think cultural and managerial integration of the two companies could pose a challenge longer term.

We came in with a young group of kids. We wanted to challenge the younger kids. All in all, I thought they did a nice job.

We have a lot of good players at a number of positions; we have so many of them coming. The challenge is to find places for them to play.

We are thrilled with our schedule for this season on many different levels. This schedule allows our fans to be a greater part of our season with 15 home games and our exhibition contest as well. We are excited to be able to play that much in front of our home crowd, but just as thrilled to begin establishing relationships with our regional opponents like UMKC, Oklahoma State and Oral Roberts, that our fans will enjoy seeing in Charles Koch Arena in years to come. Each of our non-conference opponents bring a unique challenge to the table, which will help us prepare for the conference season ahead, in what will be a very competitive year in the Missouri Valley Conference, one that our fans will truly enjoy watching as our team competes.

We have some real deep holes this year, that's for sure. East had a great recruiting year; Cherry Hill West got stronger; Washington Township is stronger. We don't have the depth we have had (during the state championship runs). The challenge is to have everybody step up and do the best that they can do.

We played them last year and had a tough time. It will be a challenge for our kids. We'll see how they come out and handle it.

We played the whole game in our zone and we can't afford to do that. This is a challenge to each one of us in this room to be better.

We wanted to go on the playoffs on a roll. This was a big game for them (Carolina). We knew they'd be fired up. Our challenge was to keep the shifts short and make sure we could maintain a good pace in the game. Our puck movement was excellent, we skated real well and took advantage of several turnovers.

We wanted to make something a real challenge that took time and effort, so we said, 'Let's swim 100 miles in a weekend,'

We will revitalize our weapons design community to meet the challenge of being able to adapt an existing weapon within 18 months, and design, develop and begin production of a new design within three to four years of a decision to enter engineering development.

We have a lot of mixed feelings. It's based on family concerns, not any problem or challenge at Cabrillo.

We have a lot of players who can contribute, including more depth than we have ever had in the past and we are going to look to play a lot of players. I've never had more of a challenge than I do this year of trying to figure out a starting lineup.

We have a lot of respect for Grand Valley State. They have an outstanding team. They are a big, balanced team that plays extremely hard. It will be a big challenge for the Cougars.

We've made a lot of claims about what we can do, now we issue a challenge to analysts to go and figure out a way to measure it.

We've got some excellent team chemistry. We're just trying to get better every week and every game. There are so many facets to this game and so many things you have to have figure out and that's going to be our challenge over the next couple of weeks.

We really tried to challenge the front of the rim. And we didn't shoot like we usually do. But, you know, a lot of times we'll shoot it well, but we're 8-of-8 or 9-of-10. That's eight or nine points. Tonight, we got 27 points at the line.

We ended up building a little Japan with cobblestone streets, bridges, a river, period buildings and antique props in Ventura, ... For the final scenes, we filmed in Kyoto temples that had never allowed filming before. But all throughout, we have tried to pay great respect to Japanese culture. I found the story very daunting to tell, as an American. I especially wanted to honor the profession because a lot of people in the West still don't know what geishas really are. The challenge for me was to bring a beautiful fable to life, to lift the veil on the beauty, joy and heartbreak of being a geisha.

We enjoy that challenge of beating a team on their own turf, when their fans are going crazy and screaming for them like they should. We enjoy that challenge and that level of competition.

We enjoy the challenge of beating teams on their home turf. The fans will be going crazy and screaming for them like they should, and the Bucks will be feeding off that. We enjoy that level of competition.

We really played up to the challenge against a great Gloucester team. When we play under control, this team is tough to beat.

We really struggled to find a consistent car today. Some of that might be due to the weather, but we face a challenge finding that consistency.

We live in different cities. But we started -- and most people don't know this -- when we were 9 years old. It's been amazing, the things that we've accomplished. There just comes a point where you have to challenge yourself and try new things. ... But we're still best friends.

That's the intensity level you have to bring into each game and we were lacking that for whatever reason. We weren't scared going into tonight, not at all. We accepted the challenge of playing the top team in the Pac-10 at their place.

That's the way, as a coach, you always wanted your team to start out like. We just didn't finish the game. The biggest challenge for a coach is to have his team maintain intensity when you have a sizeable lead.

That was a pretty good challenge for me because when I talked to him about the project he was more like a feel player, not a database player. But now he is and that's a great part for me. He's a smart guy, and he remembers every single data we take.

That was one of the plans, to challenge Gerber. He was shaky first game. But a lot of times, when you change a goalie, the momentum switches sides.

That was a fun match. Mendez is that kind of boy. He wants a challenge and he's been a real team player. It was a good workout.

That was a great first day of SEC play. The key now will be to keep it up Sunday and close out the series with a sweep of Kentucky. That will be a challenge against a hungry Wildcat club.

That would be wonderful. But the other thing that's important to us is to remain unbeaten. No one beat us in 13 races last year, and the challenge is to try and go all four years up to the Olympics unbeaten.

We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron. We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. It's no use. So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.

We're just taking that as a challenge and just keep going. Coach Meyer must see something in us that we have to improve on, so we just have to keep improving.

We're just trying to hold teams under a certain percentage. It's a challenge for us and we take it out there every game. We study film, we have goals we set before every game and we try to reach those goals. We do reach those goals. As a team, we go out there and play hard every night on the defensive end.

The real challenge in going under the belly was a robotics challenge, ... Jim and Wendy, they had probably the most challenging job of all. ... I had to find the gap fillers, and direct Wendy to take me there. ... Getting there was a big deal. Getting them out was not.

The real challenge is educating consumer and industrial markets about smart fabrics.

The real challenge is going to be increasing social spending while at the same time not expanding the budget deficit.

The real challenge is to make sure that these provisions will be applied and enforced worldwide, just like the international provisions designed to secure safety at sea.

The real challenge is when the ball gets shot. Once it's up in the air, it's an absolute nightmare trying to keep them from getting to it. That's the most difficult thing about playing them.

The real challenge lies not in debating whether disparities exist, because the evidence is overwhelming, but in developing and implementing strategies to reduce and eliminate them,

The real challenge on the energy front hasn't hit yet because it's not winter. When people start to get high heating bills, it will be another story.

The real challenge that they're trying to solve, and we're trying to solve, is how to spread the costs as fairly as possible.

The real challenge was to get the intelligence right, and the intelligence was in the software.

The real challenge was to model all the interest rates simultaneously, so you could value something that depended not only on the three-month interest rate, but on other interest rates as well.

The real challenge will be forging the right type of partnerships.

The real difficulty will be creating 1,900 good jobs for workers with high school diplomas ? full-time jobs that pay enough to raise a family, that include health and pension benefits, and that have paid sick leave and vacations. But how to do this in a global economy is a huge challenge that every country in the world is grappling with.

The real issue, problem and challenge is city of New Orleans.

The reality is, we're homeless right now. This wasn't the challenge we were looking for at this point in our lives. But I can't tell you how much it's meant to see the love that people have shown.

The process is designed to stimulate creative thinking and challenge conventional beliefs. In the end, it will allow us to work smarter and better as we secure America's transportation system.

The poor will always be among us. In their mind, as long as they get gas and electricity, they're OK. But what about the next month? And the next? . . . The challenge is helping people to break out of the mentality of poverty.

We have people that do scorekeeping and a challenge line, if one team wants to challenge another team to do something else. There are also runners going all over town to pick up food. There are a lot of opportunities.

We have played well in April (8-1). That hasn't been the case in the last two years. The main focus has been to play well and go into the playoffs with some momentum. Obviously, Dallas is playing good as well. It's a big challenge, but it's a challenge that should be fun.

We decided almost immediately to send a group down. The challenge was to find host organizations.

We decided let's put the challenge to them, ... These kids know what's going on at parties, and probably have much better ideas as to how they can get the message to their peers in a way that will make them think.

There are definitely uses for it but it is still a challenge to find something that will pay enough to get it out of the woods.

We tried to challenge the front of the rim on every possession. But we had our hands full and it's hard to beat a team three times in a season.

We tried to challenge their shots and not give them any easy shots. We were able to defend and not break down.

What well be trying to do against La Villa will be perfection. We want to perfect our plays and play perfect on defense. Thats our challenge this week.

What we need to do is get them where we need them the most, that's our challenge right now, ... But we're very optimistic that the seniors and very young children and those who need the doses will be able to get them.

Yesterday, Ryan had one bad hole and shot an 80. Today, it was two bad holes, but an 82 is still good. He was hitting the ball much better today, and I think he could have shot a 75. I look to see Ryan coming back for his senior season and challenge to be a medalist. He showed his talent today.

We really had to step up and challenge our guys. In the second half, we were able to hit some shots against the zone, and that opened things up for us.

We designed it just right. We just wanted to make sure that Kobe would not get a good look. Calvin was very instrumental in it. Kobe tried to turn and make a pass, and it just slipped out of his hand. That is a part of fatigue. He is a great player. We take the challenge to go against someone like him.

We want to challenge for the championship. We want to race as Honda and we want to take the team in a better direction.

We want to challenge for the right to win at places like Wasps. But I don't want to talk about records. We have a job to do on Monday, that is all that matters.

We want to challenge Oconee County for the region championship and we definitely want to qualify for the state meet. Our goal at state is to finish in the top five for either the girls or boys.

We have had some tough battles with Traverse City this season. Competing in a playoff environment will continue to challenge our guys and prove to be great experience in the development of our players.

We have had this kind of challenge here before.

We have a similar challenge to about a dozen teams, because the Buccaneers over the last six seasons have paid their players extremely well. That's why we have these cap issues.

We're gonna have to respond to the challenge a little bit. (Ownership) is setting up the pins for us, and we have to knock them down. They're setting it up for the players, and we have to get it done.

We're heading to Minnesota. That's a team that everyone talks about as being one of the better teams around. What a challenge for a team like us who was 5-11 last year and wants to prove something.

We're looking forward to the challenge of competing at state. Our guys have risen to the challenge the last few weeks. It's going to be exciting to see how we do.

We're looking forward to the challenge of playing at the state tournament. We have to go up there and play our game. We can't let the excitement of the state tournament get us out of our routine.

When I met him I saw a well-mannered kid with raw basketball ability who at the same time was struggling with everyday life skills. At first to me it was a challenge to help this kid because he was so likable. I wasn't thinking he'd be a big player or anything. I was trying to change the kid's life around for him.

When I fell, I didn't think I would be in this situation two weeks later. My leg has made a tremendous improvement over the last 15 days. At this point, I can do about 95 percent of the physical training activities. The challenge arises when I have to jump or sustain more impact to my leg, especially while skiing.

When in doubt live your authentic self its the best challenge you will ever embrace.

There is a whole new breed of marathoner who wouldn't even have considered running something like a marathon. In the past, people ran if they were exercise junkies. The marathon held the ultimate challenge for them.

To be a part of a championship team, I'm excited, ... This is the closest I've ever been to a championship. I'm looking forward to the challenge of helping this team repeat.

To be a part of a championship team, I'm excited... This is the closest I've ever been to a championship. I'm looking forward to the challenge of helping this team repeat.

Today's collaborative technologies are presenting a real challenge for patent law, ... and for the kinds of thinking that emerged at the time of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, when individual inventions seemed much more distinct, much less complex.

This would be unprecedented. I think it will be a real challenge to explain to voters a plan of this magnitude.

Up front we have a few freshman that will challenge the existing the corps. Our approach is to leave everything open until after our preseason tournament.

Upper-level retail, no matter where it is, has always been a challenge to lease. The retail market is good on Michigan Avenue, but when you start going up high, you're asking for trouble. The right move, I think, would be to redeploy that space into other uses.

Von has a lot of game. He is an aggressive player, but sometimes it is good to have a wild horse out there who can push guys and challenge people.

Voters are saying that they want someone capable of operating a government, someone who is steady at the helm. And considering the challenge to the city right now, I don't think that's a fact that should surprise anyone.

There is a tremendous amount of critical and confidential information flying through the airwaves in the Georgia State Capitol. Our challenge is to keep this information secure while enabling wireless access.

There is a tremendous challenge for this football team this week as we head down to Atlanta. We know that they are an outstanding football team. They are well coached. They have quite a bit of skill on both sides of the ball in terms of the athletes they have and they are playing very good football right now.

This starts a tough stretch for us and we can't afford a loss at home. If we want to win (the region) again, we have to win the big games, especially at home. But it won't be easy. Gainesville is really playing well and starting to do some things on offense that will definitely be a challenge for us.

Traditionalists didn't see any reason for it and saw it as a challenge to real collective bargaining. Over the years there has been a rethinking of this idea.

Traditionally, the restaurant market has had an expectation of being able to get seven to 10 years out of their IT infrastructure. We provided that with proprietary technology, but the open platform PC created a huge challenge in that area. The CE.NET terminal allows us to get back to a position of being able to offer that,

Tim embodies what we value in a mixed-signal designer -- expert level analog design coupled with an equally strong understanding of digital design and signal processing. Tim has consistently led the design of market-leading products and has also been instrumental in product conception. His work ethic, flexibility and willingness to embrace any challenge have set him apart for some time. It is with pleasure that we include this honor to Tim's long list of accomplishments.

Time Warner is the biggest challenge for any buyer.

The pro-life community in Mississippi would love to be the first state to end abortions in the United States. We don't know that the current Supreme Court is up to meet the challenge of overturning Roe v. Wade.

When you work with a director like this you don't have a real challenge because he makes the work very easy. He knows what he wants as a director.

Where do I start? My former manager, Phil Kingsley-Jones, is Welsh, and I've spent a lot of time in the Principality, and I am looking for a challenge and a platform which will allow me a standard of rugby which will allow me to prove to my critics that I am not some washed-up has-been,

Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great.

When you're not playing well as a quarterback, what I've learned is, you can't panic. The challenge with this football team is, when things go bad, people get frustrated. My challenge is not to let that happen.

We don't have a lot of guys that have been deep in the postseason. (But) Richard is one of those guys. Our team has to understand that we don't have second chances now. It's going to be a huge challenge for us this week.

We did some promotion work in small European clubs last summer and really enjoyed it. It gives people the chance to see you up close. We see all venues as a different challenge and we have songs that can work in all environments, even if we have to change the arrangements.

We are grateful for those who have shared their testimonies. As students, we have to look to see if in a year from now we have kept up our scripture reading. Hopefully the prophet's challenge helped us to establish or reemphasize a habit of daily scripture study.

Yeah, he did. We were playing soft and he saw that. He was trying to challenge us to go out there and bring it to them a little bit. From that point on, we did.

Tomorrow is going to be a very difficult challenge for us. We'll be ready.

We're not going to add youth for youth's sake. Younger players will have to challenge younger players - not veterans - next year. And they'll have to be able to make an immediate contribution to the team.