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So long as you tell a story that falls within the fairly generous boundaries of the suspense novel, you're free to make the novel as good as you can. You're allowed to challenge the reader. You can experiment with voice and style.

So, here we stand with the greatest challenge we have faced. We have got to provide a stable government in Cape Town.

So far the level of fraud that he has indicated, at least publicly, would not seem to rise to the level that would challenge the results of the election.

Sen. Santorum is committed to carrying out the responsibilities associated with his official role as a U.S. senator. His remaining time is balanced with the priorities of his family and the challenge of running statewide.

Shooting in sequence, I think it intensifies everybody's relationship, the crew, the actors. You have to be very focused, and shooting at night is a challenge because you get tired. I think it requires a special kind of concentration, but it's also exhilarating.

Silence. She has probably overcome the challenge that comes with the flat chin -- black-and-white thinking.

Simon has given this club great service but he was ready for a new challenge and we wish him all the best.

Shocked, I was shocked at his resignation. Our challenge now is to hire a director as capable as Jamie (Little) was. It's going to be hard to do.

Securing the 'endpoints' of a corporate network is a challenge that affects all enterprises. Companies are looking for integrated offerings that can both protect the network and ensure that endpoints are compliant with security policies. This acquisition will give customers a complete endpoint compliance solution while helping to reduce complexity and cost.

Securing the long-term future of sustainable, welfare-friendly systems is essential if we are to build up over the longer-term livestock which are...resistant to the seemingly endless cycle of diseases that challenge our farming industry.

Second place, three champions, I think that's a heck of an accomplishment. We're heading in the right direction. We only have one senior, so I think we'll be back and I'd like to see us challenge North Marion for the team championship next year. They've set the standard.

Set yourself a challenge of staying with your plan for 100 days. Mark them off on a calendar. Do whatever you have to do to stay strong. One hundred days is magical. It's longer than a month by far. It's almost a little too long, and yet you have to be determined.

She's a loud-mouth who doesn't want her son to get married. It's a challenge for me because I'm used to playing nice, likable characters, and as the queen, I have to be mean.

She wanted to go an entire game. She likes the challenge and she wanted to be out there. She'd have gotten mad if I took her out.

She was good. The mare wasn't really ready to go in the WEF Challenge two days ago, so I thought this would be a nice practice round for her today. She jumped really well in the first round and even better in the jump-off.

She's an inkblot -- the last person who is going to look at Roe v. Wade and say, 'the reasoning is flawed,' and tell us why, ... She'll just follow the path of every justice in the last 25 years who comes to the bench without a developed philosophy and ends up in the liberal camp. People whose intellect is as thin and dubious as hers will be too intellectually timid to challenge orthodoxy.

What I can tell you is that we're still working as usual. I don't what to challenge the government department.

When the same person fills both roles, the odds are much less that the board will challenge inappropriate decisions.

I have never ever confronted a challenge that I backed off from or that I was afraid of.

I have a daughter back at home and that's my main concern, ... I know my parents and my brother is older, they can basically fend for themselves. But my daughter is only 3 years old, that's a harder challenge to take care of a child in situations like that, especially if something goes wrong. It is a load off your mind, now.

I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever.

I was looking forward to coming back on the ice here so I'm anxious to go back in Colorado and just help the team. I'm really, really pumped up and it's going to be a great challenge, and for sure I want to make sure that I show everybody that Colorado made the better move so that's the challenge that I'm looking forward to.

Harnessing mobile media technology will be the automotive industry's most important marketing challenge -- and opportunity -- in the next decade. Generation Y is tuning out traditional advertising, and watching what they want, when they want. Creating breakthrough content and developing relationships with customers through emerging media technologies will separate the winners from the losers in the next five years.

Harry does a great job coaching the team. They have a peculiar style - they play a very small lineup and everyone shoots the ball. It's a real challenge to defend them.

Kids are much more tech savvy than many adults anyway. The challenge is how do we narrow the gap between the two.

Knowing our girls we will grow from this. The seniors will challenge the entire squad to refocus and improve their concentration on shooting at our practices.

I would say it's among the most challenging schedules a Toledo team has ever played. We have two Big 12 teams and a team from the Big East. It's a challenge and a real stretch for our program.

Jake has grown a lot this year. He's getting taller and starting to fill out, so it's been a challenge to determine what weight class we're going to put him at.

I wouldn't believed it. I don't know of a tougher eight-day stretch, and our guys clearly met the challenge each time out.

Has the Big East been an enormous challenge this year? It has, but that's exactly what we signed on for.

He is trying to define his own vision for all the voters, and that can be a tough challenge for a sitting vice president. In a way the vice president actually has more work to do in introducing himself.

He leads me to my best efforts because he is so sharp. It's a challenge to write something as persuasive as his arguments. We are very fond of each other.

There are so many great golfers out on tour now. Just take a look at how many first-time winners we've had this year, ... You can't just think of Annika as the biggest challenge anymore though you still need to be mindful when she's out there.

This was a good challenge for us and showed up where we are and what we need to work on. I am not disappointed with out effort. We just need to make plays when we have to.

This was a good win for us tonight. We were competitive and were more organized down the stretch. Tonight we talked about not being impatient on defense, and playing each position for the full 24 seconds. There is no reason why we cannot play like this for the next 21 games. That is our challenge - to finish the season strong and to play with discipline like we did tonight.

Ideas came swarming through her, and like many people who labour in the obsession of solitude, she lacked the detachment to challenge them.

I'd definitely like him to be with me as much as he possibly could, so we could talk and challenge each other and learn together.

Great players like Tiger or Nicklaus or Palmer or Hogan, there just aren't too many of them around. Is Vijay going to challenge Tiger? He probably could in a given year. Is Charles Howell? Is Ryan Moore? He certainly has the potential, but that's yet to be seen.

I am sure he is at home feeling motivated by watching this and wanting to step up again, ... I am looking forward to the challenge of swimming against him.

I am very excited about our 2006 schedule, ... It is important to play a challenging non-conference schedule to prepare us for the rigors of SEC play. This schedule is built to challenge us right away, which will help this young club grow as a team throughout the season and beyond.

I am very excited about our 2006 schedule. It is important to play a challenging non-conference schedule to prepare us for the rigors of SEC play. This schedule is built to challenge us right away, which will help this young club grow as a team throughout the season and beyond.

I am thankful for the opportunities that allowed me to work my way up in a large company. Now I want to give back to the community where I went to school. I ask lots of questions, perform lots of research, and challenge myself to always be on top of the issues. I am interested in government, and I want to utilize my training and my experience to improve our community. And I am not afraid to speak up on behalf of the taxpayers in my district.

I can't ever remember him not responding in a clutch situation. He's what I call a big-money player. Whenever there was a big challenge or big money on the line he would seem to step up.

I can't say Peter is an up-and-coming coach because he is past that. He has proven himself. This is the next challenge for him.

If Osama bin Laden is still Public Enemy No. 1, we have a challenge to find him among Pashto-speaking people whose nuances we're poorly prepared to interpret.

I can't imagine the challenge of that. Their staff deserves a lot of credit.

I can tell you without challenge that I have asked Bobby to please take some time to rest and spend quality time away from the job.

For sure it is the ultimate challenge for me -- a crazy challenge,

Found out Wednesday that he would be racing in the World Challenge event. On the restart, I thought I might be able to race with these guys here, but they were too tough. I just tried to hole on to finish third.

Freddy's known that this is a challenge since he got into this,

Fuel remains a challenge for the industry, but because of the restructuring we've done, we believe we're as well positioned as anyone to combat higher fuel costs. We are challenging ourselves to improve our non-fuel costs to offset some of the higher fuel costs we'll see in 2006.

For years, I felt miserable about being an outsider, but then I suddenly embraced it, ... I saw the value of being an outsider. It was liberating. You didn't have to worry about trying to fit in or losing your insider status. It also encouraged you to challenge and provoke the status quo.

(Free State was) the last team that we lost to and, after that loss, it made us better, and we're hoping for the same type of response out of the girls. I know this group of young ladies, and they will take this as a challenge to channel it in the right direction and get better.

For me, that's what I wanted to do. Sometimes managers won't let their players, for whatever reason. That's a challenge for him. For me, I'd already lost 20 games by this point. It happened well before the end of the year. It's not like I was down to one or two starts. It didn't come down to the wire.

For me the challenge is to make sure the shows are good this year and to not burn out,

Getting him to be faster than the rest of the horses was a real challenge because the horses all want to win. We have to select a horse that's going to win. In this case, he's got to be bay, he's got to be plain-looking, he's got to be small.

Getting in touch with Iraqis has not been the insurmountable challenge it seemed to be at the start. You run into more brick walls trying to get someone in the U.S. military to talk to you.

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Get the plane on the ground. Let the authorities deal with the hijackers. As in a mugging, the thing you don't want to do is grab the pistol out of the mugger's hand. Give the mugger your wallet. In a hijacking the proper thing to do is sit tight and not challenge the hijackers.

Getting back to the finals says a lot about these girls. These players took it as a challenge to get back there. Even though we didn't win, we played about as well as we could.

From my conversations with him, he's having a great spring. He's a lefty that throws hard. He has a lot of potential, a lot of upside. His work ethic ? I'd challenge people to match it. He's tunnel vision. He knows what he wants. Hopefully the stars line up for him. He's a great individual.

I feel like we're able to take coaching. You know the coaches are going to raise their voice and they're going to try to challenge you. Now we're taking it in and learning from our mistakes instead of getting mad at the coaches. We understand now that's their job. They're just trying to make us better. We understand they have to win and we have to win. It's just a learning process.

I feel like with have a really strong team but without Lance, it's going to take some time and some races to get used to him not being here. It will be big challenge for me. I think in a few years we will have another strong leader at the head of this team and I think we have a few that are here now and are ready to step up into that role.

I feel like they thought we couldn't beat them one-on-one, that all we could do was stop the run. We took that as a challenge and we stuck together.

I feel good about our team this year. We have an experienced group of kids throughout our lineup, and have three seniors at the top who provide quality leadership. Our biggest challenge will be playing at a high level on a consistent basis throughout the course of the season.

I am a little surprised. You have a lot of military kids coming in and out. It would be nice to see someone challenge it and have the same opportunities I had.

I am excited for this excellent opportunity to go back to and coach at my alma mater. This will be an exciting challenge to be a part of the great athletic department here at Southern Utah and hopefully be an important cog in the future of this program.

I don't think it's overrated. They've done a nice job on defense all season long. They're ranked No. 10 in the country (defending the run) because they've got good players and they play hard. But by the same token, it's a great opportunity for us and great challenge for our guys to line up against a quality defense like Georgia Tech and see what we can do.

I enjoy playing people that are totally different than me. It's a challenge to get inside these people's heads and wonder why they would have these beliefs.

If a challenge arises that needs mathematics to solve it, I like to be able to know how to do it. I do find solving some things entertaining.

Global warming is not only the No. 1 environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity. We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.

Given the way the national board has been operating, it is not surprising that these are the results. We will not accept it. We will challenge it in court.

For too long, immigrant women have been abused and exploited in this country. This project aims to challenge the systems that keep immigrant women in slavery-like conditions in the United States. It is shameful that the sexual abuse of poor immigrant women continues in this nation in the 21st century.

If any team should have no issues and go out and play their best football, it's us. We're building a program here. That's a challenge that has to be overcome. I didn't like the idea two years ago. But I don't think our kids think, 'Oh, that's a I-AA team.' I think they think it's just another game.

If anything, the march highlighted the human need. The challenge is getting the rest of the story out there.

From the time he was five years old, Peter's dream was to serve in the military. He told me that just before he was enlisted. He loved the challenge the military provided and earned excellent marks in his physical training and gained admirations from many of his superior.

I don?t think that our guys will ever quit in a game. Our guys have so much heart and they take it as a personal challenge to never be out-worked. I thought that we played harder and we had a chance to pull it out in their building.

For those who want to pick up old fights, we're game, but what a waste of time. Why not join hands instead? Join hands in the biggest challenge of all, where we all win, or we all lose: the battle for the survival and progress of our one and only country.

For the smaller services, the challenge is to make some kind of a case for why people would want to stay with them, ... They can argue today that they are more mature and they can offer more tools. This isn't a death knell for the smaller services, but this is a door slamming for them growing more.

For us, that's a challenge every week. We have to apply ourselves, which we did last time. Our reaction time when the ball was in the air was extremely quick.

I expected a bit more of a challenge from Launceston but we handled the conditions far better than them.

I expected Jackie to win. It was extremely neat and is something that is hard to do. She was able to answer the challenge and repeat as champion.

I expect that this level will be the most challenging for me, being on the other side of the whistle. I'm going to approach this challenge the same way that I did as a player, helping Anne in any way that I can and doing whatever it takes to come away with nothing less than the gold.

I don't think you can win without it. That's the biggest challenge we as coaches face every year.

I don't think we want to erase it. It definitely says to our team that we have a real challenge ahead of us. We want to use it for scouting purposes. We don't want to erase any part of the season.

I don't think we need to do anything differently. We need to do things consistently. That's been our biggest challenge this year. We haven't continued to execute for 60 minutes the way we need to. We haven't put together the 60 minutes on both sides of the ball.

If at the end of the day they say 'Mr. Tulloch you have to go' I will accept it with love and grace but until then I won't run and leave the youths. If they find a coach and say 'Mr. Tulloch go' I will move on just the same. It's a challenge and you just have to stand up to it.

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I felt pretty good. I had good command of all four of my pitches. They've got guys that can swing the bats over there. It's a challenge to face them.

I had planned to give this gift before the challenge was issued. But the challenge kind of triggered my decision to do it now.

I hate acceptance speeches. They always make you cringe. This way, it's a challenge to be more creative.

I have a brother who's a mechanical engineer. I'll have to give him a challenge early on after this, so he's got a year to do it.

I bring in books that are interesting to the students but I also try to challenge them a little bit. I love this program because my grandchildren are too little to read to me yet.

I believe the Go Active! Fitness Challenge is important at this level, because it's at school that we start learning good habits. Ever since I was a kid, I've needed to move and be active. Being active, for me, is also about having dreams, working hard to get better and better, having fun doing it and achieving my dreams. I hope this program will encourage young people to be active and have dreams.

I believe that this is a team that can play with anyone in the state. We're not afraid to go out there and challenge other teams. Unfortunately, today we fell behind early and that's never good. I think that we were a little off and it showed from the other night. And, quite frankly, the breaks just don't seem to be going our way. The pucks aren't quite finding their way onto sticks when they should and shots are going just wide.

I believe the solution to the energy challenge is threefold: stabilize prices, increase conservation and increase generation,

I believe they will need to go in with heavier equipment, not necessarily to do battle, but sometimes you need to show force in order not to use it, ... You have to have a credible presence so that they don't even dare to challenge you.

CEOs and directors realize that board discussions are richer when individuals with diverse backgrounds and perspectives participate. The challenge is finding qualified women and minority candidates. Boards have a responsibility to shareholders to align the composition of the board with the business strategy by appointing directors who add value to the board and company. But, there is still only a small number of women and minorities among senior corporate executives, and they are in high demand.

Certainly he's determined to prove a point. He went through a bit of frustration at the decision from down south. But he's at peace with that now and sometimes a new challenge is just what a player needs.

Certainly it has the potential to confuse voters through media coverage. The challenge for the primary candidates will be to articulate a compelling message that can cut through the clutter and establish him or her as a strong and viable candidate.