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At this point in time, we don't have any manufacturers who have accepted the challenge of taking on Honda.

At the beginning of each year, we have conceptual meetings. How are we going to challenge ourselves this year? So we suggested a transsexual or transgender. And to be honest, I am shocked they let us do it.

Black. White' will force people to challenge themselves.

Being this consistent is pretty big for me, ... I haven't felt totally on physically or technically so far this year. But I've still been able to respond to the challenge which is a really good sign for later in the season when I'll be at my best.

didn't accept the rules. I was always ready to challenge and question.

Doug's challenge is to fill the Sam's buying ranks with a strong core of career wholesale merchants with the taste necessary to establish a top-drawer assortment capable of appealing to the individual customer.

confident that Toshiba's remaining efforts to challenge the verdict, including its inevitable appeal, will fare no better than Toshiba's earlier attempts.

Congress can view this as a challenge or an opportunity. Will they honor the wisdom of DC's elected representatives? Are they willing to allow gay and lesbian residents in D.C. to be treated with equality?

Customers who take the Descartes Challenge pay only for the implementation, then pay for the solution itself later, once its value has been proven.

Cut Bank is the most generous community I have ever lived in and I know we can rise to the occasion. The real challenge will be how to get the right family here,

There had been no standardization among desktop computers. Although it seemed as if we were changing only the accounting system (or desktop), we were implementing a large culture change. We faced a training challenge when we asked people to transition to a Windows 95 environment from DOS.

was a national tragedy partly because members of Congress failed their country, remained silent and lacked the courage to challenge the administrations in power until it was too late.

Washington will be a similar challenge as Arizona. They have a similar style. This upcoming game is an opportunity for us ... We're ready to go right back and challenge our defense.

What I would say to anybody facing any life challenge or disease is that that is courage - to choose life, to keep looking at what's good.

We were thinking before the game they were going to take us for granted. I felt insulted by it, because a lot of teams think they are going to walk all over us. The good thing though is that basketball is not played on paper, and we accepted the challenge tonight.

What people up there want to know, Democrats and Republicans, is what is the challenge ahead, how are you handling that and what did you do wrong in the past,

What's a challenge for me as a coach is to (decide) who to start and who to play as the game goes on because I've got a lot of girls who can play well. That's a good challenge for me to have.

What's been a challenge for the industry is people swapping CDs and ripping and burning copies of them. It's a big piece of how people are acquiring music.

What's coming up in the future is very exciting but a little crazy for the consumer, ... Today there are no standards for various home devices to communicate together. So you'll see a lot of really neat technology appear, but the challenge for consumers is how to get it all to work together.

This year included an outstanding collection of best practices applicants, creating a remarkable competition. The innovative processes being utilized within service and support organizations across the board continues to advance their capacity to deliver world-class customer service. The quality of applications undeniably amplified the level of challenge in critiquing them.

This year it shouldn't be a dilemma. The challenge is to make that case in the Legislature.

Bernard wants to do what Sugar Ray Robinson tried to do and go from middleweight to capture that light heavyweight title. He has nothing to lose, but this is a big challenge that will really motivate him.

Together, with international unity and resolve, we can meet the challenge of this international scourge,

We don't say one guy's a priority over the other. We do believe that we would love to have everyone back. It's hard to say where you can and can't go, because you don't know what's out there for the players yet, because they can't get offers from other teams. We want everybody back. Is that realistic? No. It's our challenge to keep this thing together the best that we can.

We feel we can play with anybody inside. Our challenge has been handling the ball between the circles, in the middle of the court. We've got three other kids averaging five to six points and play good floor games.

We feel we're the heartbeat of the team. When we make a big play, the offense and defense can feed off of that. It's really a great motivator to be No. 1 two years in a row. It's hard to be No. 1 once. We're definitely motivated by the challenge of this weekend.

We are certainly more connected than ever before, but the challenge that faces us now is to use those connections to the best of our ability and for the good of us all.

With Foster back there, their character is a little different. I think they feel really confident about their ability to run the football, and so I posed the challenge to our guys: We have to stop the run and get them in situations where we can use our front four to get pressure on the quarterback.

Based on a thorough analysis of the five-year academic results at all 2,850 schools appearing in the Institute's Report Card on Ontario's Elementary Schools, we rated the schools on three categories of academic performance. The awards will be presented to the top school team in each category. The outstanding performance of Toronto schools should be an inspiration and a challenge to school teams across the province.

Every day, we challenge ourselves to think of ways to improve our products, the way we manufacture them and how we can become better members of our community. I believe this packaging and labeling initiative is another step in an industry-wide movement towards becoming more aware of what goes into the products we consume.

Every single one of us needs to take a harder look at ourselves and challenge ourselves a lot more. If you could take a piece of Jason and give it to every single player on this team, there would be a huge difference.

Everybody else is calling this 'Reggie's Team' and that's fine with me. It's just another challenge I have to face, and I look forward to it.

Everybody knows that. We have a big challenge ahead.

At some point we want to challenge it again prior to its admission.

At that rate, it is literally impossible to read everything that is relevant to an issue or subject. A new challenge has presented itself--how to make sense out of this monstrous conversation, and how to find the most interesting and authoritative information out there.

I've been seeing the ball well for a couple of weeks now. I don't know what else to say, he gave me something I could handle and I swung as hard as I could. We came out with a ton of intensity. That's the challenge coach (Ryan) Roberts gave us to come out and have good solid at-bats. Once we got started it was hard to stop.

I see the financial challenge for the people in those central offices, trying to figure out, well you were here part of the day and you weren't here part of the day.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet . . . to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

Coming into the corners, you use a lot of brake, and it's hard to not only get the car stopped, but to get it to turn. Then you go through that challenge all over again.

Communication is always a challenge in every district, ... Canton has a marvelous school district, and if we can get everyone to pull on the rope in the same direction we can do nothing but improve.

At the high school level, we want to play it safe; we don't want to alienate the audience. We wanted to provide some challenge or something different.

I started the season and two games in I am hurt. To go through an injury like that for six weeks was hard since most of it was a mental challenge more than physical to not let that pull you down.

I started out with an idea that was really kind of silly. I liked the idea of four people sitting in an apartment with nothing to do on a Sunday morning. That doesn't sound very exciting. The challenge for me was to make it as involving as possible.

I started thinking about South Africa two days after the Italy game in mid-March, that's just the nature of the beast. We've played a lot of physical teams in the last 12 months but this is the ultimate challenge for us physically and we're playing them in their own backyard, so it will be really tough.

I started to change my mind-set, knowing that regardless of where I start, it doesn't mean I'll end up there. That is the challenge I find many people are facing, that there's no way out and no hope.

The time for them creates a bit of a challenge in the mindset of 'what the heck is going on here,' ... I'm not the first coach to have a practice at that time but it might have been the first time for them.

I use that to motivate them. Especially at our home gym. If our kids want to challenge for league, they have to win at home. I try to use every angle to motivate the kids.

I've been doing lots of hard-core chick, kick-ass things. The action is appealing because I haven't found the mental challenge in the dramatic roles that I've been shown. I don't want to be the girl who just falls in love.

I've been trying to challenge myself to be more explicit. I've always liked punk rock and Sonic Youth. I make that music privately, but I've never released it.

I've been through a lot in my career, it was a big challenge to come here and try to win over the fans,

I've been feeling great all year. It was just a matter of having that extra confidence to go out there and challenge people. Maybe it's a little too late in the season, but it's something I can carry over to next year.

Things haven't been great for me recently. I'm working hard on my game and relish the challenge that lies ahead - it promises to be an exciting tournament.

Think about the amount of energy it takes a person to walk across a nice, dry, grassy area versus a field of mud. The same is true for livestock. Also, livestock may be huddled up under a tree to escape the rain and aren't coming to the feeding area. It may be a challenge to get enough nutrients into them.

The tragic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina continues to be an extraordinary challenge long after the daily front-page headlines have subsided.

The top players are playing better. Mike Weir , Jim Furyk , Ernie Els , Vijay Singh, myself... Phil Mickelson and David Duval were the exceptions, but overall, most of the guys you'd expect to challenge Tiger stepped up and challenged him. Were there classic duels with Tiger down the stretch this year? No, not really. Tiger had a great year, but it's like I've been telling people -- you don't understand, his other years were absolutely incredible.

The Toyota Family Literacy Teacher of the Year award recognizes teachers who often are the unsung heroes of our society and who now, more than ever, have the daunting challenge of positioning children and families to succeed.

The Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race draws some of the most competitive celebrity and professional drivers because it offers the high-speed challenge of real racing, combined with a worthwhile charitable endeavor. Having the mix of returning stars with firsthand experience and new drivers with their enthusiasm will combine for one of the most unique races we've had to date.

They all thought when we joined the league (from the Western District Junior Football League) that we were under done but we proved them wrong today. We've used this as our biggest challenge this season.

They also receive all the resources that come with belonging here and there. ... Hopefully it will inspire some other gyms in the area to adopt one as well. I hope to extend the challenge to other facilities in the area.

They applied it and we didn't challenge it.

The defensive line is definitely the strength of their team, which is good. That's what we want as an offensive line; we want the challenge to be on us, and we want to have a big impact on the game.

The Grand Princess is going to have the first wedding chapel at sea where the captain can actually marry you and you can have your reception on board. The choices on board these ships are second-to-none, and I would challenge any resort vacation to deliver the type of vacations that these new grand-class ships are going to deliver.

The graying of America is certain to drive health care costs in the U.S. for at least the next 50 years, ... The challenge we face as advocates is to ensure the pace of research keeps up with the expectations of the American people, so we can ensure the miracles of science are brought to our benefit sooner rather than later.

While thousands are dying in Iraq, here at home our government is waging a new war, a 'war on dissent' that threatens to dismantle the constitution and severely challenge our country's basic democratic principles of free speech and peaceful assembly." ()

We were exposed as not a very gritty team. We didn't go the defensive work we needed to do and that fueled their offense. This is going to be a challenge for our team and I hope it's a valuable lesson because we are going to see more of this.

The government could then demand these personal files with only a subpoena rather than the search warrant it would need to seize the same things from your home or business, and in many cases you wouldn't even be notified in time to challenge it.

The government did not challenge the manner in which we disposed of hazardous-waste material once it arrived in the return center, but rather the transport of the material to the return center.

The government does not challenge the manner in which we disposed of hazardous waste material ... but rather the transportation of it from stores.

We need to get as close as possible as soon as possible. That's the challenge in front of us.

We've been asked what our single biggest challenge is. I said our single biggest opportunity is building brand awareness,

We see this as a challenge and an opportunity to demonstrate that we can be there, have the lights on, even with something as complicated as Y2K.

We're hoping to see strong regulations down the road. The challenge is how to do that. As with any task force, it depends on what happens to the recommendations.

We're talking about complicated transactions here, so the prosecution's challenge is to boil it down to simple fraud. Essentially, what they're saying is that this is about misleading and deception.

We're the type of team that at times it's a challenge for us to score. What I tell my team is we want two other guys to (score) double figures. We don't know who that may be, we just need two other guys to contribute.

As the quarterback on defense he's doing all of the checks and making all of the calls. That's a big challenge for a free safety to get 10 other players in the right position on every play.

As the ball comes down the pitch at such pace, it is a challenge just to keep going. But I'm working on it.

is known for his marketing expertise, and his skills as a motivator, as he proved in leading the recovery of Mazda and as seen in the continuing progress in our Premier Automotive Group and Ford of Europe. His next challenge is to lead The Americas automotive operations back to a sustained level of profitability, while producing the best cars and trucks in the industry.

I see this as the greatest challenge we have as a nation,

I spoke with him on Tuesday, he just seemed very, very upset, very scared because he doesn't remember any of us. It's wonderful to have closure, but we know it's going to be a very big challenge to try and get his memory back.

The third quarter results demonstrate the continuing competitive challenge we face and the vital importance of securing a consensual restructuring which will enable us to move forward with our strategic capital program,

The Snow Box Derby is a wonderful valley-wide event. The North/South Challenge is a fun way to bring everyone in the valley together for some healthy, good-natured competition.

The strategic challenge the Bush administration faced was to convince the rest of the world that Iran is more dangerous than the United States.

The streak is fine, but it doesn't mean anything if we don't win, ... We have a big challenge in front of us. They've got (Dwight) Freeney. They've got (Corey) Simon. They're probably the biggest sack team in the league right now. We started thinking about that game as soon as we got on the plane on the way home from Green Bay.

The technology Siemens and Nortel developed couldn't deal with the level of noise on power lines. The technical challenge is to deal with the line noise while staying under the regulatory emission level.

The silverback is in charge. As the young males mature into blackbacks (adolescents), they begin to challenge the silverbacks. He runs them out of the troop and the blackbacks live a bachelor's life until they mature into silverbacks and establish their own groups.

The sprint car challenge is a one-of-a-kind show,

The SSG gives Juniper a high performance and highly flexible platform to challenge competitors in the security/unified threat management market, while opening up opportunities to compete for business in branch office environments where customers are revisiting the concept of converged data and security, competing head-to-head with Cisco's Integrated Services Routers.

These devices do a lot, but the message gets muddled. What are they for? The big challenge is to create a reason to watch video on a tiny screen.

These events exhibit how DaimlerChrysler, BP, Praxair and LAX are taking on the challenge for industries and governments to create viable alternative fuel solutions. We're pleased to be a driving force in this team effort to develop fuel cell technology.

The thoughts and prayers of the entire Christopher Reeve Foundation team are with Dana and her loved ones during this difficult time. We are certain that Dana will tackle this challenge with the grace, courage, and determination that have become her hallmark.

The team in general really stepped up this weekend to the challenge and opportunity of a big and great meet. We have a bunch of great kids in our program and we're really proud of all of them.

The team is pumped up right now. We would challenge any team in the state right now. I think we're at our peak, and we're only going to keep getting better.

The single biggest challenge is that this has never been done before. There is no blueprint for how you hold a world event in nine countries.

These schools are just buying games, buying wins. That's not fair, and it's not what's good for college basketball. ... There has to be some reward for people willing to play a good schedule and realizing that when you play good people, you're going to win some and you're going to lose some. We should reward the people that are willing to challenge their teams.

These cases are not a slam dunk. The biggest challenge for the government, if it wins, is to make the win stick.

These companies suffer from a lack of distribution. The challenge is who is going to introduce these companies to users.

It was a huge challenge because we had not that much time to prepare.

The size of the challenge ahead is not to be underestimated but it's one that I'm sure he's going to throw himself fully into.

The stillness envelopes me leaving no where to hide.It shows that which I know I must see, but fear deep inside.For my life is exactly what Ive created it to be,And face this challenge is what I must do, in order to be free.

You have language issues and cultural issues, and sometimes it makes the communication a real challenge for them, and I know for me. You are in this intense competitive situation where emotions are at a pretty high level, and you're dealing with a certain amount of stress, so it?s a big challenge.