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This schedule will be a tremendous challenge for our football team. But it's a great home schedule for our fans, with marquee teams such as Florida State and Virginia Tech coming to the Orange Bowl. Those are the teams our fans want to see.

Those four freshman have been playing competitive summer ball, which is a big advantage. They just need some experience at the high school level now. We have a good combination of youth and experience. We should be able to challenge for the league title and hopefully advance further in the state playoffs.

We still have a challenge in middle school.

We're excited about it. Anytime someone puts forth a challenge grant, that really does enhance your ability to raise money from other sources.

We recognize that Families First represents a dramatic change in the way we do business. The greatest challenge is managing business among competing firms.

We recognize we have a special challenge posed by right-wing extremism and that we have to give an appropriate answer.

We're a team with great confidence and swagger. I know that we've lost a game, but we've got guys on this team that's going to take on that challenge knowing that we've lost and come out and prove that we're still a great team.

We're at the point now of writing our own music. But, musically, we challenge anyone to step up to the plate with us.

We are looking for a leader on and off the field of play. We are looking toward the 2007 World Cup and trying to find a man who can take on the challenge of leading the West Indies to a World Cup triumph at home.

We are giving our competitor a fair and open opportunity to challenge our clear market leadership in a public setting.

We are going back home, and we have a big game because Denver is playing really good basketball. It is going to be a challenge because we need a win.

To be where we're at is great. But we still have a lot of basketball to go. We sure would like to be where we're at. That's a good spot to be in. But our next challenge is Oregon State.

We are on course to field viable Democrats in seats across the state. Our goal is to challenge Republicans in every district and we believe we are on course to do it.

We are one people forever woven together in a tapestry, ... And it is our job, our duty and our great challenge to fight the voices of division, and to seek the salve of reconciliation.

We're not going to get in through the back door so we're going to have to face this challenge head on. That's how I see it and that's how the guys in the room see it, too.

When they called me last year and talked to me about the job, I thought that it'd be a good challenge to come back over here. To see if we could get it going and to see what we could make of it.

We had another good day. The biggest challenge was to maintain a good level of play after a strong weekend. We attacked early, picked good pitches and, as a result, our offense really clicked. Our pitching was strong again which is key.

We had another solid meet. The team is responding to each week's challenge and our seniors are being leaders we need.

We probably see more opportunities than challenges -- they have been around a while but fortunately they have a huge unaided awareness, ... The challenge will be to maker them relevant to this generation.

The people and government of Pakistan are faced with an extraordinary challenge and we need to make an extraordinary effort to support them, ... What is needed is an immediate and exceptional escalation of the global relief effort to support the work of the government of Pakistan.

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We did what we had to do here. But Everett is very good at home, and they feed off their fans. We've been in some tough buildings before, but it will be a great challenge for us. You always have to wait until four games to see how you sit.

We are not concerned with taking control of the board or taking more money at the expense of others. Our argument is that not enough is being done to enhance the commercial value of the Heineken Cup: more partners should be sought and there should be a sponsor for the Challenge Cup, a competition which is important but which does drain resources. We are not after a bigger slice of the pie: we want a bigger pie so that everyone gets more.

We are not familiar with their players names from Junior Tennis competition. But we are looking forward to the challenge of making it five wins in a row.

We're not talking like this is a championship game, because you can't think like that, ... This just happens to be challenge of the week.

We're not trying to measure our success against the Little League, ... but we have the only league that has grown at a 7 percent clip. Our challenge is to keep on growing, and if that happens, we will have plenty more success and get plenty of attention.

We are actively seeking developers to come down here. Every obstacle, every impediment, every challenge we can eliminate for that developer the more likely he'll come down to take a look at what we consider strong development opportunities downtown.

We are actively working toward his re-election, and I am confident that he will handle this challenge with the best interest of his constituents in mind.

We are playing possibly the best 11 seed in the history of District 1. It will be a nice challenge for our kids.

We are really honored. It means so much more since our peers -- who are at times our rivals -- are the voters. This honor brings responsibility and the challenge to do an even better job in 2006.

We are really looking forward to the challenge and I think the leadership group will be really keen to make sure we don't get too far ahead of ourselves. We have still got a really important game to get over before we get to a grand final.

We are relieved to put this issue behind us so that we can focus more sharply on the key factors that drive our business results and that continued to challenge us throughout 1999, ... It is difficult at this time to predict what impact, if any, the settlements will have on these factors.

We didn't start her tonight, but she really accepted the challenge of coming off the bench. She did a great job, and this game will be one that keeps her going the rest of the year.

We do a labor forecast, we work on it on a daily basis. It's the hardest challenge - you can't take work and just expect that you're going to get 50 or 60 guys for help.

We definitely still have something to prove on the road, because we've not played nearly as well on the road as we have at home, ... We've got to rise up and challenge ourselves to play better on the road.

We definitely have to play very well to beat a great team like UCLA on their home floor. But I'm looking forward to the challenge and I know we're going to play well. It is really an honor to get a chance to play against a team that has so much tradition.

We were all glad when it was over, I think. I think we all enjoyed it, but it was a real challenge and we were all eager to get home and begin living our lives again.

We were all kind of looking at each other, wondering what we had to do. It was a great reminder to just keep working for every minute. This is the kind of challenge you have to face in the Olympics.

We do have a huge (financial) challenge in front of us, but at the same time, if we continue to lose officers we're going to see more crime. We do need to see this as an emergency situation.

When I go to the movie theater, I want to be hit on every level I can. I want to laugh, I want to cry, and I want to think, so that's the challenge I give myself as a filmmaker. When you can hit all those left brain and right brain crevices you've really accomplished something, that's what makes these films sort of timeless.

The demand for all of the networking gear and Internet infrastructure equipment is running way ahead of expectations. These companies cannot produce enough product to meet the demand, and that's their biggest challenge right now. Demand for the Internet data traffic is still growing around 300 percent per year. The Internet is still doubling in size every 98 days. All of these things that had shaken investor confidence over the last several months is a non-event. The fundamental business line is 100 percent intact.

The demise of Team Philips created an enormous challenge because it coincided with the dot com collapse and September 11, followed soon after. We were staring into the abyss.

The Democratic Party in Howard County faces a challenge because, locally, the Republicans are a force.

The Denver Broncos will be our toughest challenge this season. To have any chance, it will take our best game and certainly a lot better performance than the last time we played them.

We're excited to finally get outdoors. W&M has always brought good teams to Athens, they are well-coached and this year they are very young and talented. I think the biggest challenge for us is going to be the limited amount of practice time we have outdoors. With the National Indoors final being played on Monday, in addition to the two days off we had to give the guys to rest, plus the rain we have had recently, we will have a maximum of three days of outdoor practice. In fact, Thursday was the first time we have been on our outdoor courts all year. It will take some time to get adjusted.

We're excited to offer people all across the world an opportunity to not only support the LAF, but to unite together for people affected by cancer. The Ride is a chance to challenge yourself, to push your limits. Whether you ride 10 miles or 100 miles, whether you raise $500 or $15,000, it's an opportunity to take bold action in the face of cancer.

We want to be the top nation in Europe and I think the challenge is also to beat the Australians because they have invested heavily in sport.

We want the essays written for the Take The Challenge contest to inspire others on the road to a home purchase. This is a great way for both renters and current homeowners to publicly express how owning a home can make a difference in their lives.

When you are 0-6 and you havent won a game out there, it is a great challenge for our football team, ... It is not with the same team, but it never is.

When you are an independent, it's a bigger challenge and a better adventure when you're the one who makes the decision and then has to make it work. If you've been smart, worked hard, and gotten lucky, profits are all yours, too.

What I find interesting about it is the richness of the archive and the challenge of figuring out how the language as it was documented in 1905 is similar to or different from the language we can hear now. The project is trying to pull all of that into one big picture of a single language.

We'll still compete, but it will a challenge because we're so young. With all our young players, the future looks bright.

Well, there's no such thing as "non-funded." Any organization gets some money, and the challenge is sustainability.

The fact that we know every show can be downloaded makes it a challenge for us. Most bands play the same 14 songs night after night. Our set lists vary drastically, and we keep a log of every set we've played. We try to make every night a different experience.

The contract is something I'm really proud of, ... It doesn't bother me at all. I think it's really symbolic of my hard work and what I've done as a player and the unique challenge that I do have and continue to try and harness every year.

What we're trying to do is make sure the company is able to manage at about a $60 a barrel price. That is the challenge we have got ahead of us, I suppose.

What we've found is the biggest challenge is not helping people get housing, it's helping people stay in that housing.

The reality of the transportation challenge is that it never goes away, ... The population of Utah is growing. The population is going to continue to grow and we cannot sit back and say we've built the roads . . . and therefore do nothing else.

The real potential is getting more volume out of existing customers, not expanding the base. Attracting 21-year-olds that argument's been made for 50 years, but racing has always been an activity that appeals to older people. You need two things disposable time and disposable income. It'll always be a specialized, somewhat eccentric activity that appeals to people who like the intellectual challenge of doping out the races.

We're trying to just continue to build off the last two games. It's equally challenging to bring a team back from a victory, an important victory, as it is from a defeat. We need to continue to challenge our guys to remain focused and understand the job at hand.

We're trying to practice on them, but you couldn't play a challenge match. When the ball hits, you don't know where it's going to go. You can't have a competitive match like that.

We're trying to stabilize these folks' lives and not put them in even more transition. The challenge really is (that) there's a goal to have these families in some sort of housing within a week.

We're trying to stand up not only for First Amendment rights that have been recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court but for regular people who want to challenge incumbent politicians and require reasonable resources to do that. This law makes it very difficult to unseat an incumbent--if you hit your limit you can't even drive yourself to a campaign event.

We came back a lot more prepared in the second half. When we put the challenge to them at the half. They refocused on what they needed to do and took control of the game very quickly.

We're still young. We will have better depth hopefully, and they are one year more familiar with the high school style game. We know we've got talent. The challenge is putting them together and having them gel as a team and perform as a team.

Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you . The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out.

We knew walking into the gym we had a great challenge ahead of us. Anytime you get down early against a Division I team, you've got an uphill battle ahead of you.

We knew we could do a good job and it would be something special that the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic would want to own. It's a big challenge for them to operate. But we will do whatever we can to assist them.

We knew we had a pretty tough challenge in terms of the month performance.

We knew we had a shot, but we knew we had to play well. We knew we had to play our best defensive game of the year. That was something we had to wait to see if we could do. ... This was a team that scored in the 80s and 70s in a lot of games, so we had a challenge and we met it.

With a good training camp, good preparation games and the right mental approach, our team will be a team that's going to challenge anybody on the field in this World Cup.

When Lance was diagnosed with advanced testicular cancer, he was presented with the greatest challenge of his life. He faced that challenge and won. Now Lance has accepted a new challenge to make cancer a national priority and he needs all people -- walkers, runners, riders, volunteers, donors -- to rise to the challenge and join in this fight.

Those who would challenge or ban a book have to find out about it first,

We were walking a fine line, making it a sort of challenge for audiences to figure out what's going on without clues except what you're listening to, but at the same time, we wanted to make sure we didn't leave the audience completely at sea. I'm still not sure which bucket we finally tipped it into.

We are coming off a good win at the All-Ohio Championship and are ready to start in to our Big Ten schedule. We definitely have areas in which we need to improve in order to challenge Michigan State and will be focusing on improving our event totals, specifically on the beam. It should be a very good match up and a close competition.

We can to-day open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.

We put the challenge to him and he made a great impression. They can be a very dominating line. The thing about them is that they are so big and strong and in back-to-back games they came out and were just as strong the second night. They were an integral part of our win.

We have five seniors, but a lot of young players as well. The biggest challenge for our seniors will be helping their teammates. We've kind of walked all over people in the last few years. Success this season will take a lot more work.

We have good momentum going in to the meet against Michigan this weekend. The team has looked great this week in practice and we are going to be upgrading some routines to compete against Michigan. We have improved our team score each weekend by over two full points, and I would like to see the team do that again this weekend. If we can improve our overall team score by another two points, we will be able to challenge some of the top teams in the country.

We have great test scores, veteran teachers who are good at what they do and a great group of kids. Our challenge is to look at what we can fine-tune (for continuous improvement)," ()

We have been getting good starts. The last four in a row we've played a good first, so I think we have gotten past that for the most part. I think the challenge for us is to play consistently for 60 minutes.

We are certain that Dana will tackle this challenge with the grace, courage and determination that have become her hallmark,

We will get a challenge when we run against Eastern Kentucky. They have some Kenyan runners on the team and it is always a challenge when you run against that style.

When I was younger, I remember there was a really famous book, and it was called 'The People Could Fly.' And so this idea of, kind of like, black characters kind of jumping into space and kind of the challenge that they presented to gravity I thought was really interesting.

We're young, no question about that. But we're lucky because we have some pretty good players. I wouldn't count us out. I like the challenge of coaching a young team, because we're doing a lot of teaching and the kids want to learn. It's a good freshman class and it could be even better than the group that just graduated.

We ride him, it seems like, on every play. But he responds to a challenge and came up big on every play.

Whenever coach Green calls a personal challenge to the receivers like that, we've got to step up and do the things that he brought us in here to do, make plays and help the ballclub get on the right track.

This research is important because diagnosis of juvenile bipolar disorder is controversial - impulsivity, irritability and hyperactivity commonly occur in adolescents in general. If these symptoms all present concurrently, the challenge is to determine whether they are symptoms of bipolar disorder, or are simply a normal part of teenage development.

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This will be a challenge to see if we can finish it off. This might be the first Delta women's basketball team that has gone unbeaten in conference.

This will be a good barometer for us because this is by far the best team we've played and maybe will play. They are a football team that is not used to losing at all. For them to come off a tough loss against Carolina has really probably compounded the challenge that we have.

This will be a good challenge for us early in the season, ... We'll get to see how we stack up against some of the top programs in the country.

This will be a new kind of challenge. From what we understand, they're going to blitz more than half the time. It's going to be a challenge for (quarterbacks Brad) Guidry and Danna and for our big boys to make sure they pick it up.

This will be an incredible challenge for our players.

This will be another great challenge for our players to play against a great field in the Cowboy Classic. I hope we can put a couple good rounds together and make a good showing.

This will be a true challenge for us. We will have to play better defense and we really will have to take care of the basketball.

There is a certain challenge to directing an older play. In the '50s, there was a politeness that doesn't exist anymore. For instance, the language is more polite than we would perhaps have today. The challenge is to bring out the emotional depth that exists under that surface.

There is a challenge in North Carolina ... to some of the most rural areas trying to piece together a health care network,

There is a degree of madness about it. When you go to a place like Bonneville it's easy to see why people used to think the world was flat, that you could fall off the edge. To imagine a Formula One car running (there) is bizarre, totally offbeat. But that's what this is all about. It's a challenge for us all.

There has been much less work done in Sri Lanka because of the political problem. It may be a challenge for some donor countries to accept some exceptions amid restrictions on whom to work with.